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Washington PostA memorial service for Ashley Turton, the lobbyist and former congressional staffer who was found dead early Monday morning following a fire in her car, has been scheduled for Friday afternoon.
The service will take place at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington at 3 p.m. Friday.
The sudden death of Turton, 37, came less than 48 hours after news of the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) at a constituent event in Tucson. Both events have stunned Capitol Hill. Turton, who was married to senior White House aide Dan Turton, had been a former chief of staff to Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) before becoming a lobbyist for Progress Energy in 2007.
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The wife of a key White House aide was found dead early Monday in a sport-utility vehicle that was heavily damaged by fire in the garage of the couple's Capitol Hill home, sources familiar with the incident said. The cause of her death is uncertain.
Ashley W. Turton, 37, an energy company lobbyist and former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), was found dead shortly before 5 a.m. in a burning BMW, the back end of which was partly out of the garage, as if the vehicle had been entering or leaving when the fire started, authorities said.
Authorities said her death appears to have resulted from a low-speed crash, an unknown medical condition, the fire, or some combination of the three.
"We have no evidence of any obvious malfeasance in her death at this time," said Capt. Michael Farish, of the D.C. police homicide unit. The department's major crash unit is handling most of the investigation for the police department.
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