Connie Lawn to be memorialized at Friday event

Family members, neighbors and colleagues of Connie Lawn wlll celebrate her life over coffee and cookies on Friday.

The event will be held from 7:30-9 p.m. at the Mason District Government Center, 6507 Columbia Pike, Annandale, Va. For more details, click here.

Lawn, a long-time reporter and a member of the National Press Club, passed away April 2 at age 73. She had Parkinson's disease.

The family asks that memorial contributed be sent to either Capital Caring Hospice or Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area.