Road-tripping 91-year-old dies of cancer after year-long adventure
 

Road-tripping 91-year-old dies of cancer after year-long adventure
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When **rma Jean Bauerschmidt was diag**sed with uterine cancer at age 90 last year, the Michigan resident opted **t to undergo cancer treatment.

Instead, she chose to tour the United States in a motor home captained by her son Tim and his wife Ramie.

The trio visited national parks, attended county fairs and even watched orcas off the coast of Washington — a journey followed by millions of people and chronicled on the Facebook page, "Driving Miss **rma."

Bauerschmidt, 91, died Sept. 30 in her bed in the motor home, her family said.

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Tim and Ramie posted a quote from the 13-century poet Rumi on Friday night to publicly an**unce Bauerschmidt's death. Read more...

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