# John Waters' mother dies at 89

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-waters-mother-dies-at-89/681013>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 10, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-waters-mother-dies-at-89/681013 "2014-02-10T23:36:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-waters-mother-dies-at-89/681013/1 "2014-02-10T23:36:16Z")

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She and his father put up the money for the cult classic “Pink Flamingos”. DO NOT Google. that on a work computer if you don’t know what it’s about. 😛 I wonder if they knew what they were getting themselves into by doing that.

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[http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-patricia-waters-20140210,0,5328061.story](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-patricia-waters-20140210,0,5328061.story)

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**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-waters-mother-dies-at-89/681013/2 "2014-02-11T00:04:45Z")

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In reading that article, she seemed to be a very cool lady that had a great life.