Maria Antoinette Cole

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Maria Hawkins Cole (formerly Ellington during her first marriage to Spurgeon Ellington, a Tuskegee Airman) (August 1, 1922 – July 10, 2012) was the widow of singer Nat King Cole and mother of singer Natalie Cole. She was also a jazz singer who worked most notably with Count Basie and Duke Ellington. She met Nat King Cole while they were both singing at the Zanzibar club. She had 4 children in addition to Natalie: Carol, adopted by her and Nat when she was 3, when her birth mother (Maria's sister Caro Hawkins Lane) died; son Kelly, who died of AIDS in 1995, and twin daughters Timolin and Casey. Her third marriage was to a man several years her junior, Gary DeVore. They ran an Inn in the Berkshires together for several years. The marriage ended in divorce.

Cole was born in Boston and was the niece of Charlotte Hawkins Brown. Her father, Mingo Hawkins, was a letter carrier. Her mother, Carol, died while giving birth to her sister. Cole died in a nursing home in Boca Raton, Florida on July 10, 2012, at the age of 89, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer.

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