Carol Baldwin, who is the mother of Alec Baldwin and the grandmother of Hailey Bieber, passed away at the age of 92 in Syracuse, New York.
The actor and his siblings, Daniel, Billy, Stephen, Elizabeth Keuchler and Jane Sasso, announced the news on Instagram “with the deepest regret”.
“Carol M. Baldwin , mother of actors Alec, Daniel, William and Stephen Baldwin and two daughters, Elizabeth and Jane, died today in Syracuse, New York. He was 92 years old“, Said the statement to which they added a little of the history of his life and achievements.
“Born Carol Newcomb Martineau, in Syracuse on 14 December 1929, was the daughter of Roy and Marion Martineau and had a brother, Daniel, and five sisters, Patricia, Joan, Diane, Louise, and Rebecca,” they wrote.
“She joined a breast cancer support group on Long Island to launch an effort with SUNY Stony Brook. With the support of then university president Shirley Strum Kenny, the Carol M Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund was launched on the Stony Brook campus.
Carol was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991 and is currently survived by her 6 children, 25 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, as mentioned in the publication.
For his part, Alec added his own personal statement about seeing his mother fight so hard to promote breast cancer research: “My mother taught me about second acts. And third parties too. She spent the last 25 years of her life as a fighter and champion of the cause she devoted so much energy to. We are all enormously proud of her achievements”.
Hailey also went to her networks and published a black and white photo of Carol with the text: “yesterday at 5: 52 pm, my lovely grandmother Carol Baldwin, the matriarch of the Baldwin family, completed her journey here on earth.”
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