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[[Image:Rose_Marie_Zappa.jpg|right|none|thumb|300px|ca. 1942]]
 
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'''Rose Marie Zappa''' ([[Baltimore]], Maryland, 7 June 1912 - Burbank, California, 30 January 2004 <ref>https://books.google.be/books?id=A5jCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT335&lpg=PT335&dq=Rose+Marie+Zappa&source=bl&ots=f27y09rm9y&sig=ACfU3U1TaJm2FueBk7CvASMPiqP57Y8zvA&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjautb097blAhXQ3KQKHbcqCpA4ChDoATABegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=Rose%20Marie%20Zappa&f=false</ref>  <ref>https://nl.findagrave.com/memorial/194204288/rose-marie-zappa</ref>) was Frank Zappa's mother.
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'''Rose Marie Zappa''' ([[Baltimore]], Maryland, 7 June 1912 - Burbank, California, 30 January 2004)<ref>Barry Miles - [[Frank Zappa: A Biography]]</ref> was Frank Zappa's mother.
  
==Biography==
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<blockquote>My mother seems to like it if she sees my name in the papers, and if she sees me on TV she thinks it's good -- but she's a devout Catholic, so who can tell what she really thinks about what I do or the things I say?<ref>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</ref></blockquote>
  
She was born in 1912 as Rose Marie Colimore. She and [[Francis Zappa]] (1905-1973) married on 11 June 1939 <ref>http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/1940-1951.html</ref>, making her his second wife. They had four children: [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] (1940-1993), [[Bobby Zappa]] (1943-2018), [[Carl Zappa]] (1948-2020) and [[Patrice Zappa]] (aka Candy Zappa) (1951).  
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She was born in 1912 as '''Rose Marie Colimore''' the daughter of Charles Louis Colimore and Thereza Fava. She and [[Francis Zappa]] (1905-1973) married on 11 June 1939, making her his second wife. They had four children: [[Biography|Frank]] (1940-1993), [[Bobby Zappa|Bobby]] (1943-2018), [[Carl Zappa|Carl]] (1948-2020) and [[Patrice Zappa|Patrice]] (1951).  
  
When Zappa was 15 she told him she would spent five dollars on him for his birthday, which Zappa used to make his long-distance call to [[Edgard Varèse]].
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On my fifteenth birthday, my mother said she would spend five dollars on me (a lot of money for us then), and asked me what I wanted. I said, "Well, instead of buying me something, why don't you just let me make a long-distance phone call?" (Nobody in our house had ever made a long-distance phone call.)<ref>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</ref></blockquote>
  
 
She passed away in 2004 at age 91.
 
She passed away in 2004 at age 91.
  
==Quotes==
 
  
''"My mother seems to like it if she sees my name in the papers, and if she sees me on TV she thinks it's good -- but she's a devout Catholic, so who can tell what she really thinks about what I do or the things I say?"'' - Frank Zappa, quoted in ''[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]].
 
 
==See also==
 
* [[Francis Zappa]]
 
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Revision as of 02:30, 9 November 2021

ca. 1942

Rose Marie Zappa (Baltimore, Maryland, 7 June 1912 - Burbank, California, 30 January 2004)[1] was Frank Zappa's mother.

My mother seems to like it if she sees my name in the papers, and if she sees me on TV she thinks it's good -- but she's a devout Catholic, so who can tell what she really thinks about what I do or the things I say?[2]

She was born in 1912 as Rose Marie Colimore the daughter of Charles Louis Colimore and Thereza Fava. She and Francis Zappa (1905-1973) married on 11 June 1939, making her his second wife. They had four children: Frank (1940-1993), Bobby (1943-2018), Carl (1948-2020) and Patrice (1951).

On my fifteenth birthday, my mother said she would spend five dollars on me (a lot of money for us then), and asked me what I wanted. I said, "Well, instead of buying me something, why don't you just let me make a long-distance phone call?" (Nobody in our house had ever made a long-distance phone call.)[3]

She passed away in 2004 at age 91.


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