Sherry Hunter, spokeswoman for Manhattan DA, dies at 54
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February 10, 2006, 5:44 PM EST
NEW
YORK (AP) _ Sherry Hunter, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan
district
attorney's office, died Friday after fighting breast cancer for
nearly
five years. She was 54.
Hunter died at New York-Presbyterian
Hospital, where she was admitted
about a week ago. She had continued working
in the Manhattan district
attorney's office as the deputy director of public
information until a
few days before entering the hospital.
Her
husband, retired New York Post reporter Mike Pearl, said funeral
arrangements
were pending, but her body would be cremated and her ashes
scattered on the
beach at Montauk, Long Island, a place she loved.
Born into a military
family in the Panama Canal Zone, Hunter lived in
Germany and Egypt before the
family settled in Atlanta. She studied
English and religion at Stephens
College in Columbia, Mo., and
literature at Oxford University in England.
After moving to New York City, she worked at an advertising agency
and
as an archivist at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 1998, she became
a
public information officer in the Queens district attorney's office,
and
in 2000 she became a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney.
Hunter also taught yoga for years at the Greenwich Village branch
of
Gilda's Club, named for comedian Gilda Radner, who died of
ovarian
cancer in 1989.
She is survived by Pearl, her husband of 16
years; her stepdaughter, Amy
Pearl, of Brooklyn; her sister, Robin Nash, of
Fairburn, Ga.; and two
nieces.
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