Ida Geraldine Epps, Teddy Pendergrass' mother

Ida Geraldine Epps is the mother of Teddy Pendergrass. Ida’s son Teddy was an American singer. Born Kingstree, South Carolina raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he initially rose to musical fame as the lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Teddy is the only known child of Ida Geraldine Epps.

Ida’s husband was Jesse Pendergrass. When their son was very young, Ida’s husband Jesse left the family.

As his boy grew older, the mother promised him that she would find his father so that they could meet. Ida fulfilled that promise, and Teddy met his father when he was 11 years old. Not long after, Ida Geraldine’s husband was stabbed to death on June 13, 1962, during an altercation with another man. He was 47 years of age when he was killed.

On March 18, 1982, in the East Falls section of Philadelphia on Lincoln Drive near Rittenhouse Street, Ida’s son Teddy was involved in a car crash while driving his new Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit with a woman named Tenika Watson. The car hit a guard rail, crossed onto the oncoming lane, and hit two trees. No other cars were involved. The two were trapped in the wreckage for 45 minutes before they were freed by emergency response services. While Watson walked away from the collision with minor injuries, Pendergrass suffered a spinal cord injury, leaving him a tetraplegic, paralyzed from the chest down. Ida Geraldine Epps’ son Teddy never walked again.

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Ida’s son Teddy passed away in 2010. He died Pendergrass died from respiratory failure in January 2010 at the age of 60. At the time of his son’s death, Ida was 91 years old.

Teddy had great relationships with his three children and his mother, Ida Geraldine Epps (who was 91 at the time of Teddy’s death), but yet, the will left everything he’d worked so hard for since the late 1960s, solely to the woman he was married to for the last two years of his life. — Joan Pendergrass

Ida Geraldine had three grandchildren, they are LaDonna Pendergrass, Tamon Pendergrass, Tisha Pendergrass and, Teddy Pendergrass II

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