She appeared in a 2016 video with Queen Latifah for the American Heart Association as part of the Rise Above Heart Failure initiative to start a dialogue. Owens sang with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Jubilation Choir in the soprano section. Run with Annette Coleman, Mangos served several pro basketball players when it opened in 2006. She previously co-owned Mangos soul food and Caribbean restaurant on Main Street in Hackensack.
She was gentle, but strong, sweet, but sassy, worldly but pragmatic, a woman of great faith and certainly the love of my life.” During her life Owens, who lived in Wayne, was ingrained in New Jersey culture. “Anyone that has ever met her knows what a bright light she was on this earth. “It is with a heavy heart that I share the news my mother, Rita Owens passed away today,” Latifah said in a statement to People. Our thoughts are with the entire Owens family during this difficult time.Rita Owens, the mother of Queen Latifah (birth name Dana Owens) and former New Jersey resident and restaurateur, died Wednesday after a long battle with a heart condition, according to multiple reports. We know Queen Latifah has at least two other siblings, though, because her brother Angelo Owens and sister Raven Owens attended her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in 2006. Like their father, Lance Owens was a police officer in East Orange, NJ, but he died at age 23 in a motorcycle accident. Sadly, Rita’s death isn’t the first heartbreak in Queen Latifah’s life. There are a lot of kids that need love out there.” Does Queen Latifah have siblings? “Maybe I’ll adopt a child that’s not necessarily a baby. I had to get a lot of partying out of my system early in life for about 40 years, you know what I’m saying? I’m good now. I just really want to be there for them through adulthood and for the rest of their lives.”Ī year later, Queen Latifah again opened up about wanting to become a mom. When then asked if she’d prefer to have a little prince or princess, the actress replied, “It doesn’t matter to me. Being a mom is probably the most unselfish thing you can do,” she exclusively told Closer Weekly in 2015. Hopefully one day it will be my blessing. While Queen Latifah isn’t a parent at the moment, she’s been thinking about starting a family for some time now. #SpokespersonĪ post shared by Queen Latifah on at 12:42pm PST Let’s keep the #RiseAboveHF conversation going throughout 2018 along with me and my mom Rita, who is living with heart failure (HF). We’ve gotten a lot closer and we’ve learned each other on a whole different, deeper level.” Does Queen Latifah have kids?Īmerican Heart Month may be wrapping up, but that doesn’t mean we should stop talking about the importance of heart health. “I will do whatever I can to make sure my mom is comfortable and has whatever she needs,” she said. Queen Latifah had been living part-time with her mom in New Jersey and sharing the work of Rita’s caregivers, she told People in 2015. Even after her heart failure diagnosis, she remains stronger than ever.” How old was Rita Owens?Īccording to NJ.com, Rita was 69 at the time of her death. “Growing up, when life got hard, her strength helped pull us through. “My mom is stronger than anyone I’ve ever known,” Queen Latifah once said in an American Heart Association PSA. In her statement, Queen Latifah explained that her mother “struggled with a heart condition for many years and her battle is now over.” In a 2015 interview, the rapper-turned-actress shared that her mother was living with heart failure and a lung condition, the former of which they found out about in 2004 after Rita passed out while teaching art at a New Jersey high school. Much love, Dana Owens (aka Queen Latifah), forever Rita Owens’ daughter.” Scroll down for more details on Rita and her famous daughter. She added, “I am heartbroken but know she is at peace. She was gentle but strong, sweet but sassy, worldly but pragmatic, a woman of great faith, and certainly the love of my life.” “It is with a heavy heart that I share the news my mother, Rita Owens, passed away,” she said in a statement to People. The 48-year-old announced her mom’s death yesterday, Wednesday, March 21. Star actress Queen Latifah is sadly mourning the loss of one of the stars of her own life: her mother, Rita Owens.
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