FILE - House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, performs a mock swearing in for Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., right, with his wife Rhonda Massie, center, on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, in Washington. Rhonda Massie, the wife of U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, has died, the Kentucky congressman announced Friday, June 28, 2024, on social media. FILE - Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., listens as the House Rules Committee prepares a bill at the Capitol in Washington, June 12, 2023.
His social media posts featured photos showing the couple and their family. The congressman said the couple spent time with their grandson last week while touring Mount Rainier in Washington.“She was valedictorian at our high school where we went to the Prom together, accepted at MIT and Harvard, earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from MIT, and devoted her life to our family,” he wrote.in Kentucky’s May primary.
Kentucky state Sen. John Schickel said his “heart breaks” for the congressman and the couple’s children. “Rhonda was a fantastic human being, and her loving marriage with Congressman Massie was among the most beautiful you could imagine,” Schickel said. “They were high school sweethearts and college classmates. It was a true love story.”
The Republican Party of Kentucky said in a statement that Rhonda Massie was “an amazing mother, wife, and Kentuckian. She touched all who knew her and will be deeply missed.”