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Thelonious Monk's Widow, Nellie Dead at Eighty...

All About Jazz Source: All About Jazz

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Nellie Monk, wife of Thelonoius Monk and mother of TS Monk succuumed to a cerebral hemorrage on Tuesday, June 25, 2002 at Lenox Hill Hospital at 2:17 pm. Surrounded by family and friends she leaves one granddaughter, Sierra, one grand son, Thelonious IV and a devoted daughter-in-law Gale Grain Monk.

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