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Article: Stevie Wonder's mom shared writing credits
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- Daily Breeze
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- June 9, 2006
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Lula Mae Hardaway, mother of singer Stevie Wonder, has died. She
was 76.
Hardaway died May 31 in Los Angeles, Wonder's publicist Shelley
Selover said Thursday.
She did not know the cause of death.
"To us you are and always will be our everything! God blessed us
with our only living angel," said a memorial comment from Wonder and
other family members included in an obituary for Hardaway's Thursday
funeral.
Hardaway is credited as a co-writer on several of Wonder's songs,
including the hits "I Was Made to Love Her" and "Signed, Sealed,
Delivered I'm Yours."
Hardaway was born Jan. 11, 1930, to a sharecropper in Eufaula,
Ala. Her life was marked by poverty and abuse, according ...