National Affairs: Death of a Lady

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Sara Roosevelt, 86, was always glad to be back in the old house overlooking the Hudson, whose mistress she had been for 61 years. There she tended the roses and the delphiniums, watched the hundred-year-old trees tremble in the sun. There she grew too old to live any longer. In her bright room that looked out through the shimmering foliage toward the Albany Post Road, with her son beside her, this week Sara Delano, wife of James Roosevelt, quietly died.