SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Olive Osmond, mother of Marie and Donny Osmond and other members of the performing family, died Sunday at 79.

A family spokesman said she died of complications from a massive stroke she suffered more than two years ago. Family members were at her side.

She was born in Idaho in 1925 and married George Osmond in 1944.

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The couple had nine children, 55 grandchildren and 22 great grand children.

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