Kathie Lee Gifford’s Mother, Joan Epstein, Has Passed Away At Age 87

Joan later met her husband, Aaron Epstein, while working at the Office of Naval Research. Her husband’s military career led the family to cities throughout the world, including Paris, where Kathie Lee was born.

Aaron passed away in 2002.

In addition to Kathie Lee, the couple also had a son, David, and another daughter, Michelle. The Epsteins raised their family just outside the nation’s capital in the Maryland suburb of Bowie.

The siblings often joked about the way their mother mixed up her sayings.

“We call them Joni’isms. She couldn’t get anything right then and she still can’t,” Kathie Lee once recalled. “But it’s always been adorable in her.”

One of the most important qualities her children learned from their mother was the importance of loved ones. Joan leaves behind three children, six grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.

“Family is everything to her, her faith, her family, that’s her life. That’s her life,” Kathie Lee said. “And I inherited a great deal of that from her.”

(Source: Today.com)

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