Jimi Hendrix?

Question

Whats Jimi Hendrix's real mom's name?

Answer 1

That would be Lucille Jeter.

Answer 2

Her name was Lucille Jeter. It's actually a pretty sad story. She died in 1958 from cirrhosis of the liver. She and Al Hendrix, Jimi's father, divorced when Jimi was quite young. She was, from all accounts, an alcoholic. Al Hendrix in an interview by Jas Obrecht in Guitar Player Magazine:

"Jimi and I were living at Mrs. McKay’s boarding house when [Jimi’s mother] Lucille passed away. Even when we had our own house, Jimi didn’t have a whole lot of contact with his mother [who Al divorced when Jimi was a young boy]. She wouldn’t call up and say she was coming by. She would just sporadically stop by. Maybe two or three weeks would go by and then all of a sudden she’d just pop in any old time.

Later on Jimi and I would talk about Lucille [who, according to Al, was an irresponsible parent who drank too much]. Although he probably remembered fun times with her, he never mentioned them a lot. Sometimes he’d say, “Yeah, I had a good-looking mama,” and things like that. One time he said to me, “I wonder why mom just didn’t take care of herself better.” Another time he mentioned, “I wish mom hadn’t been the way she was, carrying on and all that.”

Jimi loved his mother, but he knew how she was. She loved him, but in her own strange way. She talked about, “Oh, yeah, I have so many kids,” but she didn’t take care of any of them all the way down, and she didn’t have any with her when she died.

Lucille was thirty-two when she passed away. Jimi might have already been learning guitar by then, but his mother never heard him play. I feel so sad about that."

She is buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in Seattle, under the name Lucille Hendrix Mitchell. She was buried in a pauper's grave, and as of 2005 the grave had no headstone.

Answer 3

Sally Struthers

Answer 4

James Marshall Hendrix
I saw him in 1969