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Linda Barbara Williams- What happened to Kimberly Williams-Paisley's mother?

Linda Barbara Williams was the mother of Kimberly Williams Paisley. Linda Barbara Williams’ daughter Kimberly is an American actress known for her co-starring roles in According to Jim and Nashville, as well as her breakthrough performance in Father of the Bride, for which she was nominated for several awards, and its sequel, Father of the Bride Part II.

Linda Barbara Williams: Bio Summary

Full NameLinda Barbara Williams
famous asmother of Kimberly Williams Paisley
Age73 years old at the time of death
Date of Birth1943
Place of Birth United States of America
Date of deathNov. 16th 2016
NationalityAmerican
EthnicityCaucasian
Children Ashley Williams, Jay Williams, Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Spouses Gurney Williams

Who was Linda Barbara Williams?

Kimberly Williams-Paisley’s mother was born in 1943 in the United State of America. Linda Barbara Williams grew up in Chappaqua, N.Y. She was a very educated woman- she graduated from Hollins College in 1965. She was a reporter with her husband for Newsday.

She Raised Millions of Dollars For Nonprofit Causes

Williams began her fundraising career in 1987 as a development officer at Sarah Lawrence College. During 13 years there, she was instrumental in expanding alumnae/i giving, and growing the endowment. In 2000, she became director of principal gifts at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

She moved to the Fox Foundation three years later to continue her pursuit of large-gift support for medical research. Williams raised millions of dollars for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

Her Cause was of so much help to the famous actor Michael J. Fox. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991. He shared his thoughts about her and her impact on the foundation during its early years in a foreword to her daughter Kimberly Williams-Paisley’s 2016 memoir, Where the Light Gets In.

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Michael J. Fox Shared- “Linda Williams was one of those people who come into your life—friends, family members, sometimes colleagues—whose compassion for others and outlook on life resonate with you forever. As our foundation’s first major gift fundraiser, she inspired our staff with her ability to convey to supporters both the complex neuroscience we were driving and the simple optimism that our efforts would speed a cure.”

Linda Barbara Williams had three children

Apart from her wonderful contributions to this world, Linda Barbara Williams was also a mother of three children. There are  Ashley Williams, Jay Williams, and Kimberly Williams-Paisley. Her daughter Kimberly Williams-Paisley is an actress, author, and Alzheimer’s Association spokesperson.

Her son Jay is a fire lieutenant with the Brentwood Fire Department in Brentwood, Tenn., and founder of Williams Honey Farm, an organic beekeeping company in nearby Franklin. Ashley Williams also followed in the footsteps of her elder sister Kimberly and became an actress. She is known most recently for her work on the movie “The Jim Gaffigan Show”.

What happened to Kimberly Williams-Paisley’s mother?

Kimberly Williams-Paisley’s mother Linda Barbara Williams passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 16th, 2016. She died after a long bout with dementia. She was 73 years old at the time of her death.

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Linda Barbara Williams was initially diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia in 2005 when she was 62 years old. The earliest symptoms of relatively rare dementia are losses in communication skills. In the year of her diagnosis alone, she personally solicited and helped to secure gifts totaling more than $3.5 million for the foundation. She and her husband retired in 2007.

The Mother and Daughter Duo were very Close

In a 2014 interview with “Good Morning America,” Williams-Paisley talked about her mother’s condition

“I’m finally at a point – my mother’s finally at a point where I feel like it’s OK to talk about it. There was a long time … that she didn’t want us to talk about it, and that was so much a part of the stress of what we were all going through, was that we had to hide it and cover up for her, and protect her pride,” she told Robin Roberts during the Interview. “And I just felt like we were at a point where our story could help other people.” They appear to be very close.

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Update: 2024-05-17