Jacklyn Gise Bezos , the mother of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos , has died at the age of 78 following a long battle with Lewy body dementia , her son announced in an Instagram post shared on Thursday (August 15).

"Her adulthood started a little bit early when she became my mom at the tender age of 17," Jeff Bezos wrote. "That couldn’t have been easy, but she made it all work. She pounced on the job of loving me with ferocity, brought my amazing dad onto the team a few years later, and then added my sister and brother to her list of people to love, guard, and nourish. For the rest of her life, that list of people to love never stopped growing. She always gave so much more than she ever asked for.

"After a long fight with Lewy Body Dementia, she passed away today, surrounded by so ma

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