Elizabeth Warren’s Oldest Brother Passes Away Due to Coronavirus

Elizabeth Warren’s oldest brother, Donald Reed Herring, while in the military. (Warren/Herring Family Photo)

Elizabeth Warren’s oldest brother passed away due to Coronavirus. He was 86 years old and was living in Oklahoma. According to the article, he did 20 years in the U.S. Air Force. He was dealing with cancer and was recently hospitalized for pneumonia. After the pneumonia hospitalization, he was transferred to rehabilitation.

From the Boston Globe:

Herring was born in 1933 and attended the University of Oklahoma, but did not graduate, before enlisting in the Air Force, where he flew B-47 and B-52 bombers. He flew 288 combat missions in Vietnam, eventually becoming a B-52 squadron pilot and a squadron aircraft commander. He earned numerous decorations before retiring in 1973 as a lieutenant colonel and starting an auto-detailing business. In her statement, Warren described Herring as a natural leader with a quick, crooked smile.

Known as Don Reed, Herring was the oldest of Warren’s three brothers, and he is survived by the other two, John Herring and David Herring. The trio became a silent fixture of their sister’s presidential campaign, because she spoke often of them as a link to her upbringing in a more conservative world, highlighting their military service and the fact that two of them — Don Reed and David — were Republicans who agreed with her on some fundamentals. They never spoke to the press, but all three appeared in video footage used by her campaign.

Although there appears to be “discrepancies” in the service as shown in the article, this may be due to how the reporter put words together. The Boston Globe has more at this link. Thanks to Snake for the link.

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