CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Gertrude Woodard Taylor, the mother of singer-songwriter James Taylor, has died at the age of 94, the musician announced on his website Monday.
"I'm deeply grateful for all the kind words of sympathy and condolence that people have been sending in these past two days," Taylor wrote in a post, along with an obituary for his mother, whom he noted was an accomplished painter, the daughter of a Massachusetts fisherman and the wife of a North Carolina doctor.