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Article: Mother of Stevie Wonder: Life marked by abuse, poverty, religion
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 9, 2006
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LOS ANGELES -- Lula Mae Hardaway, mother of singer Stevie Wonder,
has died. She was 76.
Ms. Hardaway died May 31 in Los Angeles, Wonder's publicist
Shelley Selover said Thursday.
She did not know the cause of death.
Ms. 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."
Ms. Hardaway was born Jan. 11, 1930, to a sharecropper in Eufaula,
Ala. Her life was marked by poverty and abuse, according to
interviews she gave for a 2002 biography, Blind Faith: The Miraculous
Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother.
At 15, she and her father moved to Indiana, where she went to work
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