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August 31, 1981, New York Times - UPI, Margaret Ryan Is Dead at 59; Ex-Wife of Slain Congressman, 

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30— Margaret Ryan, the first wife of Representative Leo J. Ryan of California, who was slain outside the People's Temple commune in Guyana in 1978, died Firday at Peninsula Hospital here. She was 59 years old.

Mrs. Ryan, who was married to the Democratic lawmaker for 23 years, was hospitalized Wednesday after suffering an acute asthma attack. She slipped into a coma and did not regain consciousness, doctors said.

She was born in McClellan, Iowa, and served as a Navy nurse in California in World War II. She married Mr. Ryan on Oct. 16, 1948, and filed for divorce in 1971. The Congressman later married again and was divorced before he and four other persons were shot to death in an airport ambush Nov. 18, 1978.

Mrs. Ryan is survived by her mother, two sons and three daughters.

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