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BOB MARLEY'S MOM REMEMBERED IN KINGSTON: Mother of late reggae legend honored before burial Monday beside late son.
*The body of Bob Marley's mother Cedella Booker was laid to rest Monday alongside her famous son in his hometown of Nine Miles, Jamaica, according to reports.
Thousands of mourners paid their last respects during a tribute Sunday in Kingston's National Stadium, where her casket – draped in blue, red, yellow and black cloths, the colors of the Rastafarian faith – was on display.
Richard Booker, one of two sons from a second marriage, remembered his mother as a deeply spiritual woman who joyfully cared for her family.
"She read her Bible every day and listened to gospel music every evening," he told crowds of friends and relatives who gathered as drummers performed traditional Rastafarian rhythms and chants.
Cedella Booker, a native Jamaican, was 18 when she married 50-year-old British man Norval Marley. The reggae music of their son Bob Marley would attract worldwide fame before his 1981 death of a brain tumor at age 36.
Booker, who was 81 at the time of her death on April 8, is survived by two children and several grandchildren.
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