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'My life with CMG Argwings-Kodhek'

Funeral service of CMG at Holy Family Catholic Basilica, Nairobi. Her two young sons Gem and Caesar in foreground, with Yuneah Ouko carrying her other child. TJ Mboya, then Economic Affairs Minister, is on Mrs Argwings-Kodhek's  left. 

NAIROBI: Following the death, in January 1969, of Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister, Argwings-Kodhek, in a suspicious road accident, his widow Joan later defiantly said, 

"The scar of losing my husband, the father of our six children, continues to heal. However the magnitude of the loss to me, coupled with the circumstances of the same, are a pain that will never leave me."

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