Evelyn Norton Lincoln, 85, who was personal secretary to...

Evelyn Norton Lincoln, 85, who was personal secretary to President John F. Kennedy, died Thursday in Washington of complications after surgery for cancer.

Mrs. Lincoln was President Kennedy's secretary from January 1953, when he started his first term in the Senate, until his death Nov. 22, 1963, when she was in the motorcade in Dallas when he was assassinated.

Mrs. Lincoln wrote two best-selling books, "My 12 Years With John F. Kennedy" and "Kennedy and Johnson."

After Kennedy's death, she worked on his personal papers, many of which are in the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston and in the National Archives in Washington.