Utahns, former colleagues and supporters from across the country paid their final respects to former Utah Congresswoman Mia Love and her family on Monday. Love served as a wife, a mother, a leader in the community and a politician who made national waves.

Remembrances for Mia Love poured in Sunday after news broke that she died at the age of 49 following a battle with glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer. A former Utah congresswoman, Love was the first Black Republican woman in the U.

Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to the United States Congress, passed away peacefully at her home in Saratoga Springs, Utah, surrounded by family. She was 49 years old.