21.  For two years, Stephen Solimene has been the family spokesman, an older brother of Janet Downing haunted by images of his sister fighting for her life.

22.  He died after a brief illness, a family spokesman said.

23.  He died of cardiac arrest with resulting brain damage, Bill Wills, a family spokesman, said.

24.  He had undergone heart bypass surgery earlier this year at New York Hospital, said Richard Aurelio, a family spokesman.

25.  He had chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a family spokesman said.

26.  He had been suffering from lung cancer, a family spokesman said.

27.  He lived in Mineola, a small city northeast of Tyler in East Texas, and had been flying for ValuJet since November, a family spokesman said.

28.  Her butler found her in her swimming pool after she had suffered a stroke, a family spokesman said.

29.  Kersee also backed away from a statement issued by a family spokesman on Monday that Griffith Joyner was believed to have died from a heart seizure.

30.  Late Wednesday, Lazaro Gonzales continued to meet with federal officials but had made no such promise, said a family spokesman who attended the meeting.