{"id":29886,"date":"2024-07-10T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/jon-bon-jovis-mom-carol-bongiovi-dies-at-83-she-will-be-greatly-missed\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:02:47","slug":"jon-bon-jovis-mom-carol-bongiovi-dies-at-83-she-will-be-greatly-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/jon-bon-jovis-mom-carol-bongiovi-dies-at-83-she-will-be-greatly-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bon Jovi&#8217;s mom Carol Bongiovi dies at 83: &#8220;She will be greatly missed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-10\/Getty_bon%20jovi%20and%20mom_071024_0.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jon Bon Jovi and mom Carol Bongiovi in 1990; Ron Galella\/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Condolences go out to <strong>Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong> and his family: His mother,<strong> Carol Bongiovi<\/strong>, passed away on July 9, three days short of her 84th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Bongiovi, born <strong>Carol Sharkey<\/strong>, was born in Erie, Pennsylvania and joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1959, where she met her husband, <strong>John Biongiovi, Sr.<\/strong> The couple moved to New Jersey, where their sons <strong>John Jr.<\/strong> &#8212; later known as Jon Bon Jovi &#8212; <strong>Anthony<\/strong> and <strong>Matthew<\/strong> were born.\u00a0 Described as an entrepreneur who operated several businesses, Carol also worked as a Playboy Bunny and founded the Bon Jovi fan club.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s survived by her husband, John Sr., her three sons and daughters-in-law and eight grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Jon Bon Jovi said, &#8220;Our mother was a force to be reckoned with, her spirit and can-do attitude shaped this family. She will be greatly missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Bon Jovi and mom Carol Bongiovi in 1990; Ron Galella\/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Condolences go out to Jon Bon Jovi and his family: His mother, Carol Bongiovi, passed away on July 9, three days short of her 84th birthday. Mrs. Bongiovi, born Carol Sharkey, was born in<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/jon-bon-jovis-mom-carol-bongiovi-dies-at-83-she-will-be-greatly-missed\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}