Davis ' mother, Cleota Mae ( Henry ) Davis, wanted her son to learn the piano ; she was a capable blues pianist but kept this fact hidden from her son.

Originally born in North Carolina as Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr., he was ten months old when his mother, Ada Mae ( née Kirby ), died in the 1918 Flu Pandemic.

* Lula Mae Hardaway ( born January 11, 1930 ) mother of Stevie Wonder.

Helms was born in Monroe, North Carolina, where his father, nicknamed " Big Jesse ", served as both fire chief and chief of police ; his mother, Ethel Mae Helms, was a homemaker.

Tomlin is set to star in Reba McEntire's new TV series Malibu Country as Reba's character's mother Lillie Mae.

Tiffany was singing at a Los Angeles club named El Palomino when she was discovered by Hoyt Axton and his mother Mae Axton.

In 2003 Essie Mae Washington-Williams announced that she was the natural daughter of the late Senator Strom Thurmond ( which his family confirmed ), born in 1925 when he was 22 and her mother Carrie Butler was 16 and a housekeeper at his parents ' house.

Her last successful roles were as Lute Mae Sanders in Flamingo Road, her brief appearance as the corrupt nurse Miss Hatch in Detective Story ( 1951 ) and in Lullaby of Broadway, as the alcoholic mother of Doris Day's ingenue character.

His mother, Helene Stanton ( née Eleanor Mae Stansbury ; born 1925 ), is a retired singer and actress who came from a " highly Victorian upper-middle-class family in Philadelphia ".

Albert's overbearing, interfering, mother Mae comes to break up her son's relationship with Rosie.

After a reconciliation with Albert, Rosie tells Albert's mother Mae that she will marry Albert despite Mae's racist objections, and to irritate her, declares she's Spanish (" Spanish Rose ") with deliberate comic exaggeration.

* Mae Peterson – Albert's overbearing and prejudiced mother

Tyne Daly played Albert's mother Mae Peterson.

Dialogue where Albert's mother Mae laments her fate was re-written into a song entitled " A Mother Doesn't Matter Anymore ," and in " A Giant Step ", Albert tells Rosie how he has finally broken free of his overbearing mother.

Kitt was raised by Anna Mae Riley, an African-American woman whom she believed to be her mother.

His mother had a walk-on part ; his daughter, Zoey, has appeared in several episodes ; and his late grandmother, " Ma " Mae Skelton, co-hosted the biscuit episode " The Dough Also Rises ".

Marietta DePrima and Eric Allan Kramer played Dave and Sally Rogers, a primary, friendly, wholesome white couple that live in the suburbs, and Darryl's happy-go-lucky mother Hattie Mae Hughley, played by Marla Gibbs and his father, Henry Hughley, played by Ellis Williams.

In return, Telma Hopkins portrayed Yvonne's mother, Paulette Williams ; opposite Hopkins, Sherman Hemsley portrayed Yvonne's father, Mr. Williams – who did not get along with Darryl, because in Darryl's own words, thought of him as a " jackass ", including Patricia Belcher as the family's Aunt Jessie Mae Hughley.

She did not want to raise her child, so her mother, Jannie Mae Howard, adopted him.

His mother, Mae Boren Axton, co-wrote the classic rock ' n ' roll song " Heartbreak Hotel ", which became the first major hit for Elvis Presley.

His father was killed before he was born and his teenage mother, Eva Mae Fisher, ended up arrested soon after and put in jail where she gave birth to him.

New York lawyer Sheldon ( Woody Allen ) has problems with his overly critical mother ( Mae Questel ).

Watts and his mother moved to Inkster, Michigan, and in 1962, Dorothy Mae married a mechanic named Norman Caesar with whom she had two daughters.

Cnut had left Norway under the rule of Håkon Eiriksson but he was drowned in 1029, and Cnut appointed his son Svein to rule Norway with the assistance of Ælfgifu, Cnut's first wife and Svein's mother.

González's mother had drowned in November 1999 while attempting to leave Cuba with her son and her boyfriend to get to the United States.

For incest between mother and son, both were burned to death ; with a stepmother, the man was disinherited ; with a daughter, the man was exiled ; with a daughter-in-law, he was drowned ; with a son's fiancée, he was fined.

* A daughter of Leucon and mother of a son Argynnos, who was loved by Agamemnon and drowned in River Cephissus.

He killed the brothers underground, but was drowned by Dilga, their mother, who flooded the underground murder-spot with her milk, which also revived her sons.

My mother drowned one every year for five consecutive years.

* Zachary Turner ( 2002 – 2003 ), baby drowned by his mother in Canadian murder / suicide

His mother, Amanda Wusinowska, a widow soon after her marriage ( Carl's father drowned saving a friend three weeks before he was born ), brought up her son alone.

His mother also drowned herself, but apparently, according to The Tale of the Heike ( Heike Monogatari ), she was pulled out with a rake by her long hair.

A tale from the Kieta district of Bougainville Island relates that Maneka, the Willie Wagtail, darting along a river bank echoes a legendary daughter looking for her mother who drowned trying to cross a river flooding in a storm.

If by tabloid what you mean is you're trying to reach a popular audience, trying to write topics that are viscerally important to a readership, whether it's the story about the mother in Houston who drowned her five children or the story on the missing intern in Washington, Chandra Levy.

Her mother, Linda, was an administrator of a mental health center, and her father, who worked for an agricultural firm, drowned when Preston was three years old.

He confessed that Que-en had decided to leave him and take their daughter, so he drowned his sorrow in booze and returned home on the night of December 3 to find her and her family, her mother Sqush-e-lek and her father Shil-at-ti-nord, packing her belongings.

Gyllenstierna's mother Sigrid was sentenced to be drowned ( the only woman condemned to death ), but avoided execution by surrendering all her estates.

He drowned but was transfigured as the marine deity Palaemon, while his mother became Leucothea.

The exhausted cubs drowned in the lake, but the mother bear stayed and waited in hopes that her cubs would finally appear.

His father, also James Allen, drowned in an accident in 1690, after which his mother, Elizabeth, moved the family to Westminster and remarried.

The seven siblings born before him were drowned by their mother Ganga in order to break their curse — as they were incarnations of the aforementioned Vasus, who do not like to live the life of Humans.

The mother bear made it across, but her twin cubs, although they swam hard behind her, drowned in Lake Michigan.

An-Mei's daughter, Rose Hsu Jordan, reveals how her mother lost faith in God when Rose's youngest brother, Bing, drowned in a beach outing.

In 2006 she married Michael Holland, a multi-millionaire oil shipping businessman after his wife, Jane Attenborough, 49 ( daughter of Richard Attenborough ), and his 15-year-old daughter Lucy, and his mother, Jane Holland, 83, all drowned in the tsunami in December 2004.

After his father broke his neck and drowned in a diving accident when Meader was only eighteen months old, his mother moved to Boston to work as a cocktail waitress, leaving Meader behind with relatives.

In March 2009, they hired an exterminator to remove a beaver family using live traps, and accidentally killed the mother when she got caught in a snare and drowned.

According to the legend, in 1489, a 3-year-old local boy who had drowned in the river was revived when his grieving mother placed him in front of a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary at the high altar.