Sabah’s first female minister and widow of its first CM passes away


KOTA KINABALU: Toh Puan Rahimah Stephens (pic), the widow of Sabah's first chief minister Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens, has passed away on Monday (March 14). She was 91.

Rahimah died of a heart attack at a private hospital where she was admitted after suffering a fall at her house here over the weekend.

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