Yvonne Wamalwa, the widow of former vice president Kijana Wamalwa, has died.
A family member told The Star she died of an unknown illness in Nanyuki on Thursday.
Yvonne was the second born in a family of four – three girls and a boy.
She grew up in in Parklands, Nairobi, before moving to Kileleshw, and attended City Primary School and Cardinal Otunga Girls High School in Bungoma.
Yvonne then went to Kenya Polytechnic and West London College where she studied Hotel Management and Tourism in 1994.
She later graduated with a degree in terrorism, counter-terrorism and extremism after studying at Murdoch University from 2008 and 2011.