When Sienna Snook was younger, her mother would sing her to sleep each night. It was a tradition that Sen. Faith Winter kept up even as her life and political career grew busier. And though it would sometimes come through a phone call or a voice recording, “You Are My Sunshine” made it home at night.

As Sienna grew older, Winter would tell her bedtime stories about feminists, “to show me to shoot for the moon,” she told a crowd of mourners on the steps of the state Capitol on Friday.

“Her love stretched far and wide,” Sienna, 14, said. “When I was a kid, she told me she loved me to the moon and back. Now it’s just a little further.”

Winter, a 45-year-old mother to Sienna and Tobin whose decade-long career in public service helped reshape her home state and encouraged countless women to

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