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Ben Murray-Bruce loses wife to cancer

By Editor
20 March 2020   |   9:45 am
Media entrepreneur and former senator representing Bayelsa East, Ben Murray-Bruce, on Friday, lost his wife Evelyn to cancer. “I’m broken. Just lost my beautiful wife to cancer. She was my best friend for 43 years and my wife for 41 years," Ben twitted Friday morning. ”Our children are devastated, I am too. But I have…

Media entrepreneur and former senator representing Bayelsa East, Ben Murray-Bruce, on Friday, lost his wife Evelyn to cancer.

“I’m broken. Just lost my beautiful wife to cancer. She was my best friend for 43 years and my wife for 41 years,” Ben twitted Friday morning.

”Our children are devastated, I am too. But I have to be strong for them. Please put our family in your prayers. Like the sun, my wife was a blessing and touched the lives of everyone she met. Though she’s gone, she’d remain alive in our hearts forever.”

Ben is also the founder of Silverbird Group and represented Bayelsa East senatorial district in the 8th Senate.

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