Rose Marie Zappa
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.
