On her death Sunday at age 94, former first lady Nancy Reagan was remembered as quietly compassionate, fiercely protective of her husband and calm even in the most trying of times.

“Nobody loved anybody more strongly than Nancy Reagan loved Ronald Reagan (and) even though her own husband was in surgery, she went out of her way to console and comfort Sarah Brady,” recalled Frederick “Rick” Ahearn, a Chestnut Hill native and former advance man for President Ronald Reagan who was there when Reagan and White House Press Secretary James Brady were both shot and wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt.

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