The family plans to hold a public celebration for Wilson later this year. Mary was always very conscientious about the COVID guidelines, so keeping with her wishes, the family will have a celebration to honor Mary’s life and legacy later this year with her friends, family and fans when we are all able to come together in person, they said in a statement.
Wilson s son Rafael was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in L.A. in 1994. He was 16 when he died in a California highway accident that also left Wilson with serious injuries.
Wilson is survived by a daughter, Turkessa; son Pedro Antonio Jr.; sister Kathryn; brother Roosevelt; cousin and adopted son William; 10 grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.
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Founding Member of The Supremes, Mary Wilson, Dies at 76
Mary Wilson, a founding member of The Supremes, has died at age 76. Wilson died at her home in Las Vegas on Monday evening, her publicist Jay Schwartz confirmed to multiple outlets. Wilson’s cause of death was not immediately clear but Schwartz said in a statement that she “passed away suddenly.” According to Schwartz, funeral services for Wilson will be private due to restrictions and protocols amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but there will be a public memorial later this year.
Born on March 6, 1944, in Greenville, Mississipp and began her career in Detroit in 1959, singing for The Primettes, who would later go on to become The Supremes. Alongside Diana Ross and Florence Ballard who was later replaced by Cindy Birdsong Wilson appeared on each of The Supremes’ 12 No. 1 pop hits from 1964 to 1969. Just a few days before her death, Wilson shared a video on her YouTube channel announcing that she was planning t
She was the sweet, pretty one on the right, always with the right moves and purring backup vocals Mary Wilson was also the one who kept the Supremes flame alive, collecting their gowns for exhibitions and writing books, including her 2019 tome on their glittery style, “Supreme Glamour.”
That sweet backup singer in Motown’s most celebrated girl group the Supremes had a run of 12 No. 1 hits morphed into a sultry jazzy vocalist in recent years, but Wilson never tired of talking about the Supremes and their meteoric rise to fame.
Wilson died of heart disease Monday at her longtime Henderson, Nevada, home at 76, said her publicist Jay Schwartz. But her heart was always in Detroit, where she grew up a music-crazy teenager in the Brewster-Douglass Projects, before being signed to Motown in 1961 with friends Diana Ross and Florence Ballard.
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