ELIZABETH EDWARDS STOPS CANCER TREATMENT

Elizabeth Edwards is the daughter of Elizabeth and Vincent Anania (1920–2008). For part of her childhood she lived in Japan, where her father, a United States Navy pilot, was stationed. She graduated from the Francis C. Hammond High School (now Francis C. Hammond Middle School) in Alexandria, Virginia, then attended Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She then transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which she received her bachelor's degree. After three years of postgraduate studies in English at UNC, she entered UNC's School of Law and earned a J.D.. She met John Edwards when they were both law students at UNC. They married on July 30, 1977