Mary Ida Vandross, 82, mother of Luther Vandross dies

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Mary Ida Vandross, mother of R&B legend Luther Vandross, died last
week of natural causes, Access Hollywood has learned.

She was 82.

Mary Ida outlived all four of her children, as well as her only
grandchild.

No additional information was immediately available.

Luther Vandross died from a stroke in 2005 at the age of 54.

Following her son's death, Mary Ida spoke to Access Hollywood about
losing Luther.

"I miss him tremendously as he was the last of my four children to
pass away," she told Access Hollywood. "You knew him as such a big,
strong person and to see him brought down from diabetes to a weakling
-- it's almost unbearable."

[La N]

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> Mary Ida outlived all four of her children, as well as her only
> grandchild.
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Geeze ....... how sad is *that* ....

- nil

[brigid nelson]

It's pretty sad. My husband's grandmother outlived 3 of her 4 children
(the one who survived her was a bitch, naturally) and 1 of her
grandchildren. It pretty much devastated her.

brigid