Jane Pitt, a schoolteacher, philanthropist and the mother of film star Brad Pitt, died on Tuesday at the age of 84.

The Pitt family shared her obituary with KY3 , an NBC-affiliated station in Springfield, Mo., where Jane and her husband, Bill, raised their three children — Brad, Doug Pitt and Julie Neal.

The cause of Pitt's death was not revealed by the family.

Doug Pitt's daughter Sydney shared a tribute to her grandmother on her Instagram account with a series of pictures.

"We were not ready for you to go yet but knowing you are finally free to sing, dance, and paint again makes it a tad easier," she wrote.

"I don't know how we move forward without her. But I know she's still here in every brushstroke, every kind gesture, every hummingbird. She was love in its purest form," Sydn

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