Eleanor Mondale, Daughter of Walter Mondale, Dies

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Eleanor Mondale, a vice president's daughter who carved out her own identity as a broadcast journalist and gossip magnet, has died at her home in Minnesota. She was 51.

Family spokeswoman Lynda Pedersen says Mondale died Saturday.

Mondale had been diagnosed with brain cancer years earlier.

The daughter of former Vice President Walter Mondale and his wife, Joan, Eleanor Mondale had been off the air at WCCO-AM in Minneapolis since March 2009. That's when she announced her brain cancer had returned a second time.

Mondale had surgery to remove the tumor in August 2009. After surgery, she returned to her Prior Lake farm, where she lived with her third husband, musician Chan Poling.

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