From the Los Angeles Times:

Carrie Rozelle, the widow of former NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle and founder of the nonprofit National Center for Learning Disabilities, died Monday at her home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. She was 70.

… Before marrying Pete Rozelle in 1973, she was married for 16 years to Ralph Kent Cooke, an advertising executive whose father was Jack Kent Cooke, a wealthy Canadian businessman who at one time owned the Lakers, the Kings, the Washington Redskins and the Forum in Inglewood.

Two of her children had learning disabilities. Rozelle was unable to find information about dyslexia and other problems, and so in 1977 she founded what was originally called the Foundation for Children with Learning disabilities.

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