A St. Paul woman on vacation died during a water emergency in St. Louis County, Minn.

The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call at 5:55 p.m. Wednesday, reporting an 80-year-old woman had been found unresponsive in Lake Vermilion. Family members had started CPR.

First responders arrived at the scene on Blueberry Island and transported Marit Smaby-Nowlin back to land and then by ambulance to Cook Hospital.

“Life saving efforts at the scene and at the hospital were unsuccessful,” the sheriff’s office said in a Thursday statement.

Smaby-Nowlin was the daughter of a Minnesota legislator, Alpha Sunde Smaby, who served from 1965 to 1968.

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