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James Thom was born May 28, 1933, in Gosport, Indiana, to Jay Webb and Julia Thom, both doctors. [2] [3] He is one of four siblings. [2]He attended Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis, and was in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years (1953-1956) during the Korean War, becoming a sergeant.
His mother, Ruchel Dwajra Zylska (name changed to Rachel Deborah Shilsky, and later to Ruth McBride Jordan; April 1, 1921 – January 9, 2010), was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. James was raised in Brooklyn 's Red Hook housing projects until he was seven years old and was the last child Ruth had from her first marriage, the last child of Rev ...
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, is the autobiography and memoir of James McBride first published in 1995; it is also a tribute to his mother, whom he calls Mommy, or Ma. The chapters alternate between James McBride's descriptions of his early life and first-person accounts of his mother Ruth's life, mostly taking ...
The royal family has boasted some very long-lived members—Prince Philip passed away barely two months before his centenary, Queen Elizabeth lived to be 96, and her mother, the late Queen Mother ...
Just one year after tragedy, more heartache has hit the Roberts family. Betty Lou Bredemus, mother of Julia Roberts and grandmother of young starlet Emma Roberts, died Thursday morning at St. John ...
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In 1942, she married her second husband, Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr., an attorney and Standard Oil heir; becoming his third wife. [18] Together, they had two children: Janet Jennings Auchincloss (1945–1985), [19] who was married to Lewis Polk Rutherfurd in 1966. [20] [21] James Lee Auchincloss (born 1947) [22] [23] [24] Hugh Auchincloss died ...
ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images Booksmart’s Kaitlyn Dever is honoring her mother, Kathy Dever, following her death at age 53. “I don’t even have the words,” Kaitlyn, 27, wrote in a ...