Best wishes, thoughts and prayers to the Vice President and his family. Will post more info as it becomes available.
Just breaking on MSNBC.
Link from yesterday on Huff Po, Jean Biden, Mother of Joe, 'Seriously Ill'
No link yet. David Shuster just reported it has been released from the White House.
Update: H/T to Vita Brevis for link and statement from VP Biden.
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo...
My mother, Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Finnegan Biden, passed away peacefully today at our home in Wilmington, Delaware, surrounded by her children, her grandchildren, her great-grandchildren and many loved ones. At 92, she was the center of our family and taught all of her children that family is to be treasured, loyalty is paramount and faith will guide you through the tough times. She believed in us, and because of that, we believed in ourselves. Together with my father, her husband of 61 years who passed away in 2002, we learned the dignity of hard work and that you are defined by your sense of honor. Her strength, which was immeasurable, will live on in all of us.
Very nice obituary from Delaware Online
As a young boy struggling with a speech impediment and worries about being smaller and poorer than his classmates, Vice President Joe Biden found strength in the words of his mother, Jean.
"Remember Joey," she would say, as Biden recalled in his autobiography. "You’re a Biden. Nobody is better than you. You’re not better than anybody else, but nobody is better than you."