Robert downey jr mother obituary
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Robert Downey Jr. Pays Tribute to His Late Mother, Elsie
— -- "Iron Man" star Robert Downey Jr. lost his mother Elsie Ann Downey last week and the actor took to Facebook to pay tribute.
"I wanna say something about her life, and a generic 'obit' won't suffice," he wrote of the late 80-year-old.
Robert downey jr mother obituary
"Elsie Ann Ford was born outside Pittsburgh in April of 1934, daughter of an engineer who worked on the Panama Canal, and mother who ran a jewelry shop in Huntingdon, where they settled ... a bona fide 'Daughter Of The American Revolution.'"
He continued, "In the mid '50s, she dropped out of college and headed to NY, with dreams of becoming a comedienne.
In '62, she met my dad, (who proposed at a Yankees/Orioles game). They married, had my sister Allyson in '63 and me in '65... There was another "revolution" of sorts going on at that time, of underground counter-culture film and theatre...a