Saturday, January 9, 2010

Jean Biden, mother of vice president, dies at 92

By Rachel Kipp, The (Wilmington) News Journal

As a young boy struggling with a speech impediment and worries about being smaller and poorer than his classmates, Joe Biden found strength in the words of his mother, Jean.

"Remember Joey," she would say, as Biden recalled in his autobiography. "You're a Biden. Nobody is better than you. You're not better than anybody else, but nobody is better than you."

Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Biden, the diminutive but strong-willed matriarch of the Biden family, died Friday after a brief illness. She was 92. In a statement, the vice president said that his mother passed away at home, surrounded by her family.

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