Death of a Parent Quotes

My mom died when I was 11 years old.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

I was 33 when my father passed away.

What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did.

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

My dad passed away when I was 10.

I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday.