Jackie Bezos, the mom of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, died on Thursday at her residence in Miami at age 78.
Jeff Bezos shared the information on Instagram, saying she handed away surrounded by household after a protracted struggle with Lewy Physique Dementia.
Bezos mentioned his mom “pounced on the job” of loving him when she gave beginning at age 17 and that for the remainder of her life, the “record of individuals to like by no means stopped rising. She at all times gave a lot greater than she ever requested for.”
In an obituary printed by the Bezos Household Basis, the philanthropic group began in 2000 by Jackie Bezos, her husband Mike and their kids, Bezos is described as a faithful mom who made “numerous journeys to Radio Shack for Jeff.”
Jackie Bezos, together with Mike, made a $245,573 funding in Amazon in 1995 to assist get the brand new e-commerce firm off the bottom. Amazon is now price greater than $2.4 trillion.
Jackie Bezos’ philanthropic pursuits included spearheading the 2016 opening of the Bezos Household Immunotherapy Clinic, a first-of-it’s variety facility that was the results of a collaboration between the Fred Hutch Most cancers Heart and the Seattle Most cancers Care Alliance.
In 2017, Jackie and Mike Bezos gave Fred Hutch $35 million on behalf of the household — on the time it was the one largest philanthropic dedication within the heart’s 41-year historical past. They simply eclipsed that quantity in 2022 with a “transformative” $710.5 million reward.
“What we’re actually giving is the reward of time for all these individuals who will profit from new remedies and cures,” Jackie Bezos mentioned in 2017. “It’s the reward of extra hugs, extra graduations and extra moments.”
Jacklyn Gise Bezos was born on Dec. 29., 1946, in Washington, D.C. Her household moved to Albuquerque, N.M., and in highschool she gave beginning to her first little one, Jeffrey, her obituary reads. She met Miguel (Mike) Bezos, a younger Cuban immigrant and married on April 5, 1968. They’d two extra kids, Christina and Mark, and have been married for 57 years.
“We have been all so fortunate to be in her life. I maintain her secure in my coronary heart perpetually,” Jeff Bezos mentioned on Instagram.
