WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton died Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, after an illness, according to media reports.
Dorothy Howell Rodham was 92 years old when she passed away during the early hours, reportedly, shortly after midnight, according to taiwannews.
Hillary Clinton's Mother Remembered
ABC World News/Tuesday, Nov. 01, 2011 (video)
Rodham was born in Chicago in 1919, the daughter of a firefighter, Edwin John Howell Jr. and Della Murray. In her autobiography, Clinton described her mother's childhood as lonely and without love from parents who divorced in 1927 and grandparents who lived in California, where Rodham and her sister, Isabelle, were sent to live.
Dorothy Emma Howell and Hugh E. Rodham, a traveling salesman, married in 1942. They raised Hillary and her brothers Tony and Hugh.
According to ABC anchor Diane Sawyer, Hillary Clinton's mother was an inspiration to her famous daughter, whom Dorothy Rodham taught to "never be a quitter."
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