SALT LAKE CITY >> Family and friends of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love gathered Monday in Salt Lake City to honor her life and legacy after she died of brain cancer last month at age 49.

Love, a daughter of Haitian immigrants, was the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress.

The former lawmaker from Utah had undergone treatment for an aggressive brain tumor called glioblastoma and received immunotherapy as part of a clinical trial. She died March 23 at her home in Saratoga Springs, Utah, weeks after her daughter announced she was no longer responding to treatment.

Hundreds of mourners entered the service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Institute of Religion on the University of Utah campus.

— The Associated Press