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Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Also learn how She earned most of Elsie Downey networth? According to her son, Elsie Ann Downey died Monday night at the age of 80, and today the actor took to Facebook to pen a touchingand yet signaturely quirkytribute to the woman to whom he owes. "I remember living with her and her boyfriend Jonas, (who became a second father to me) in a 2 room 5 story walk up in Manhattan after thatBunsen burner for a stove, cockroaches, broken dreamsBy 1990, she'd had enough, went to treatment, got sober. Eventually, when finances allowed, we were able to move her out to LA. She was also reclusive, self-deprecating, a stoic Scotch-German rural Pennsylvanian, a ball buster, stubborn, and happy to hold a grudge. Robert Downey Jr has posted a touching tribute to his mother on Facebook following her death earlier this week at the age of . All rights reserved. She called me out of the blue, and I admitted everything. Chafed Elbows (a man marries his mother and goes on welfare), Greasers Palace (a woman relentlessly persecuted by God who never utters a word), and Moment To Moment AKA Two Tons Of Turquoise To Taos Tonight (in which she played 17 characters) were the stand outs. Sign up for notifications from Insider! Now shes an Oscar nomineeand shes just getting started. Wayne Shorter funeral, burial service, pictures, date, time, venue. However, the way and manner her death occurred with respect to what exactly killed her remain a mystery to unravel. Due to financial constraints, she then lived in a 2-room, fifth-floor apartment in Manhattan, which she shared with her boyfriend, Jonas Kerr, who became a paternal figure for her children. She had a special affinity for my firstborn son Indio, and really got a kick out of Exton. Elsie Downey was born on April 11, 1934 in Dormont, Pennsylvania, USA as Elsie Ann Ford. Elsie Alma Downey was born on month day 1893, at birth place, Michigan, to William O. Renick and Catherine Renick (born Green). Everything we love about Downey Jr., he claims, can be attributed to her. "In the summer of 2004, I was in bad shape. She called me out of the blue, and I admitted everything. Elsie Ann Downey passed away on Monday September 22nd at the age of 80. A new elite? In the mid '50s, she dropped out of college and headed to NY, with dreams of becoming a comedienne. Allyson and Robert, with his first wife Elsie Ann Downey. She was also reclusive, self-deprecating, a stoic Scotch-German rural Pennsylvanian, a ball buster, stubborn, and happy to hold a grudge.