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W.Va. delegates, from left, Jim Morgan, D-District 15, Kevin Craig, D-District 15, and Margarette Leach, D-District 15 discuss legislative issues in the House Chambers prior to session in Charleston. Margarette Leach died Sunday at the age of 81.

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Margarette Leach, 1999

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Margarette Leach at the dedication of the Merritts Creek connector in 2002. Leach said she often reminded Gov. Bob Wise that the connector needed to be finished.

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W.Va. Delegate Margarette Leach, D-Cabell, joins Speaker of the House Robert Kiss, left, in 2001 honoring Marshall football coach Bobby Pruett and other members of the 2000 Thundering Herd team during a ceremony at the Capitol Building on Wednesday. The team was honored in both houses and later had lunch with Gov. Bob Wise.

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West Virginia delegate Margarette Leach speaks to her fellow delegates in 2004 about the Marshall-WVU game.

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Former West Virginia Delegate Margarette Leach participates in 2007 in a ribbon cutting ceremony during Prestera's dedication of the Margarette R. Leach Center for Youth and Families.

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Former West Virginia Delegate Margarette Leach gets a hug from her friend Charles Carroll of Huntington on June 18, 2007, during Prestera's dedication ceremony of the Margarette R. Leach Center for Youth and Families.

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West Virginia House Delegate Margarette Leach reads through the proposed budget during a House finance meeting on Friday in Charleston in 2000.

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Former West Virginia Delegate Margarette Leach, shown here in 1974, spent much of her career in nursing.

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