The public is being invited to the Cabinet Office today and all week long to sign a condolence book in honour of Gloria McPhee who died over the weekend.

Premier Ewart Brown and his Cabinet will lead the procession of public mourners when they sign the book this morning just before a weekly Cabinet meeting. Gloria McPhee was the Premier’s aunt and a pioneering politician.

She was the first woman to hold a Cabinet portfolio and was Education Minister during the integration of schools.

Mrs. McPhee died Sunday at age 80. Politicians of all political stripes have offered their condolences to her widower Dr. G.B. McPhee and her two children.

Members of the public are invited to offer their messages of tribute beginning today from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. until Friday. The condolence book will be on display along with Mrs. McPhee’s official portrait.