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Daughter of MLB great Jim ‘Catfish’ Hunter dies suddenly after school fire drill

The daughter of Hall of Fame MLB pitcher Jim “Catfish” Hunter died Thursday after collapsing during a fire drill at an elementary school in North Carolina, reports say.

Kim Hunter Daughtery, a 45-year-old fifth-grade teacher at Hertford Grammar School, died after having an undisclosed medical emergency in the presence of a school nurse at about 10:30 a.m., Perquimans County Schools Assistant Superintendent James Bunch told the Virginian-Pilot.

Daughtery had told school staffers earlier in the day that she wasn’t feeling well.

“She was a great teacher, a great colleague and she was loved,” Bunch told the newspaper.