Molly Sinclair McCartney dies at 84 after decades as Post reporter and traveler

3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Apr 28

McCartney died of cancer on April 16 at her home in Mont Belvieu, Texas, according to her stepson Robert McCartney.
She reported for The Washington Post from 1979 to 1993, chronicling feminism, investigating corporate fraud, and writing on aging, and co-authored an award-winning Miami Herald series on auto insurance abuses.
McCartney completed her late husband James H. McCartney's book on the military-industrial complex, earned a degree from Georgetown, and remained an adventurous traveler, planning a final road trip to Alaska before her illness.

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