Christopher Anne Affleck, mother of Ben and Casey Affleck, dies at 83
Page Six reported that Christopher Anne Affleck, mother of actors Ben and Casey Affleck, died of cardiopulmonary arrest while visiting her son's Los Angeles home, with pancreatic cancer listed as a contributing condition. The death certificate obtained by the outlet confirms those causes. Earlier reports from Boston.
com and TODAY. com said the former public-school teacher and civil-rights activist had died at 83 after a brief, month-long battle with a terminal illness, leaving behind her husband, two sons and five grandchildren.