Hilary Clinton’s Mother, Dorothy Rodham, Dies At 92

Hillary Clinton and Dorothy Rodham at East High School in Des Moines, Iowa

 

Dorothy Rodham, mother of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former US President Bill Clinton’s mother-in-law, has passed away. Rodham died Tuesday, October 1, 2011 at age 92 after an illness in Washington, D.C.
A statement released by the Clinton family, heralded Rodham as a woman who ‘overcame abandonment and hardship as a young girl to become the remarkable woman she was — a warm, generous and strong woman; an intellectual; a woman who told a great joke and always got the joke; an extraordinary friend and, most of all, a loving wife, mother and grandmother’.
During all Hilary Clinton’s successful wins and defeats, Rodham managed to stay out of the media. She rarely granted interviews on her daughter or son-in-law, Bill the former President
Dorothy Howell Rodham was born in Chicago in 1919, the daughter of a city firefighter. In her autobiography, “Living History,” Hillary Clinton described her mother’s childhood as lonely and loveless.
Born June 4, 1919, Dorothy was described as a homemaker. US President Barack Obama praised Rodham as a ‘remarkable person’ who also was ‘strong, determined and gifted’.