File photo of US senator Elizabeth Warren. (Image: Reuters)
The former Democratic presidential candidate said her brother died Tuesday evening. He spent his career in the military after joining the US Air Force at the age of 19, Warren said
- Associated Press Boston
- Last Updated: April 23, 2020, 9:35 PM IST
The oldest brother of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Donald Reed Herring, has died from the coronavirus, the Massachusetts senator said on Thursday.
The former Democratic presidential candidate said her brother died Tuesday evening. He spent his career in the military after joining the US Air Force at the age of 19 and was “charming and funny, a natural leader,” Warren tweeted.
The Boston Globe reported that Reed, 86, died in Norman, Oklahoma, about three weeks after testing positive for the virus.
Herring flew B-47 and B-52 bombers for the Air Force, and flew 288 combat missions in Vietnam, the newspaper reported. He served as a B-52 squadron pilot and a squadron aircraft commander before retiring in 1973 as a lieutenant colonel.
“What made him extra special was his smile quick and crooked, it always seemed to generate its own light, one that lit up everyone around him,” Warren said.
