Stephen Colbert's Mom Passes Away at 92

Lorna Elizabeth Tuck Colbert raised 11 kids and
lived to the ripe age of 92 before her death on
Wednesday, June 12.
"The
Colbert
Report"
aired a
replay on
Thursday,
June 13 as
its host,
comedian
Stephen
Colbert ,
grieved the loss of his mother, Lorna Elizabeth
Tuck Colbert, who passed away on Wednesday
at the age of 92. Colbert had previously
suspended his TV comedy-talk show when his
mom first began to fall ill back in February
2012.
When Colbert, the youngest among 11 of Mrs.
Colbert's children, returned after checking in
on his mother's failing health, he remarked,
"Evidently, having 11 children makes you
tough as nails. Confidential to a lovely lady."
Among the ten other Colbert siblings, Mrs.
Colbert's other prominent child is her daughter
Elizabeth Colbert Busch, a former
congressional candidate and also a comic like
Stephen.
According to her obituary, Mrs. Colbert, who
was born in November 6, 1920, in Larchmont,
New York, was not only a mother to 11
children but was in fact a matriarch to a large
family of 82. She was "an accomplished artist,
a church leader, a businesswoman, a supporter
of the arts and a woman whose profound faith
was apparent in her daily life."
Mrs. Colbert had survived to outlive her
husband and two of his sons who all died in a
plane crash that happened many years ago in
1974. Instead of flowers, the Colbert family
has requested for donations to be made to the
Medical University of South Carolina
Foundation in her honor.