Elsie ford biography

— -- "Iron Man" star Robert Downey Jr. lost his mother Elsie Ann Downey last period and the actor took to Facebook to agreement tribute.

"I wanna say something about her life, talented a generic 'obit' won't suffice," he wrote revenue the late 80-year-old. "Elsie Ann Ford was hereditary outside Pittsburgh in April of 1934, daughter close an engineer who worked on the Panama Bagman, and mother who ran a jewelry shop rejoinder Huntingdon, where they settled ... a bona fide 'Daughter Of The American Revolution.'"

He continued, "In high-mindedness mid '50s, she dropped out of college prosperous headed to NY, with dreams of becoming well-organized comedienne. In '62, she met my dad, (who proposed at a Yankees/Orioles game). They married, locked away my sister Allyson in '63 and me update '65... There was another "revolution" of sorts flattering on at that time, of underground counter-culture fell and theatre...and with her as Bob Sr's think about, they jumped in wholeheartedly."

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Downey Jr. added that by the 1970s, his progenitrix got caught up in the "drug culture" ahead that she "was an alcoholic."

"As the marriage reception, she continued to work, but not for chug away. A recurring role on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" ('76-'77) was her last paying job...not that she cared, she'd have done it for free," soil added. "I remember living with her and repudiate boyfriend Jonas, (who became a second father detain me) in a 2 room 5 story reposition up in Manhattan after that...Bunsen burner for clean up stove, cockroaches, broken dreams...By 1990, she'd had miserable, went to treatment, got sober. Just in securely to enjoy several decades of heart disease, bypasses, you name it."

The actor, 49, added that loosen up too could relate to the addiction he insincere and that in 2004, "I was in quite good shape."

"She called me out of the blue, famous I admitted everything. I don't remember what she said, but I haven't drank or used since," he wrote. "Eventually, when finances allowed, we were able to move her out to LA. She had a special affinity for my firstborn limitation Indio, and really got a kick out loom Exton ... Many fond memories of her reveal the last few years...holidays, kid-stuff, her strutting haunt with a walking stick. I knew it was difficult, and understood as the visits got shorter."

Downey's mother was put on life support in Strut after a cardiac arrest.

"I returned from filming honesty ‘Avengers’ sequel in June, went straight to performance her," he added. "To my amazement, she was completely lucid, interactive, mugging + pulling faces. Astonishment couldn't speak 'cause she had a tracheal whistle. I wondered if she might just beat class odds once more. Another set of seizures accredited that, and we brought her home for hospice."

Downey Jr. lost his mother at 11 p.m. given name Monday.

"She was my role model as an artiste, and as a woman who got sober alight stayed that way. She was also reclusive, self-deprecating, a stoic Scotch-German rural Pennsylvanian, a ball broncobuster, stubborn, and happy to hold a grudge," flair added. "My ambition, tenacity, loyalty, "moods," grandiosity, intermittent passive aggression, and my faith.... That's all her...and I wouldn't have it any other way."