Florida Senate Prez’s Husband Dies in Utah Hiking Accident

The husband of Florida’s Senate president died after falling while the couple were hiking in Utah on Monday, according to a memo sent to her colleagues on Wednesday. John Passidomo was 72.

A real estate lawyer and former vice mayor of Naples, Passidomo “fell and suffered massive trauma to his head, among other very serious injuries,” Sen. Dennis Baxley, the Florida Senate’s president pro tempore, said in the memo.

Baxley noted that Passidomo and his wife, President Kathleen Passidomo (R), were “law school sweethearts” looking forward to celebrating their 45th wedding anniversary in September.

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