Alma Wahlberg, the mother of entertainers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg and a regular part of their reality series “Wahlburgers”, has died, her sons said on social media on Sunday. She was 78.
“My angel. Rest in peace,” Mark Wahlberg tweeted.
Donnie Wahlberg posted a longer tribute to his mother on his Instagram account.
“It’s time to rest, Mom,” Donnie Wahlberg wrote. “I love you, miss you, thank you and will celebrate you, today and always.”
No information was given about the cause, date or location of her death. Donnie Wahlberg regularly posted about his mother in his accounts and in July informed his fans of her health and wrote that she ‘did not remember much and was often confused, but somehow’ that she ‘still Alma ‘was.
The Boston-born mother of nine has become a household name thanks to her appearance in the A&E series “Wahlburgers” about the family’s budding civic chain.
“She does not apologize for who she is, but never puts herself above anyone else. She kicked our asses when we got confused, and kicked someone else’s asses when they messed with us. We learned right, we had the price paid when we were wrong, ”Donnie Wahlberg wrote on Sunday. “She was the epitome of the word grace.”
He also included a video of them dancing to one of Regina Belle’s favorite songs, “If I Could,” during his wedding. He wrote that she danced to the song at each of her children’s weddings, but on his own he surprised her by having Belle there to perform it live.
On the program “Today” in 2018, Alma Wahlberg opened up about her parenting and how difficult it was early. “I invented the craziest meals,” she said. English muffin pizzas were among her creations to feed her hunger a lot.
More than a few of her children have achieved great success and fame. Her son Paul Wahlberg, the chef behind the namesake burger chain, also named the Alma Nove restaurant in Hingham, Mass., After her.
“People know me as the mother of famous children, and although this fact has brought many gifts into my life and given me opportunities that may never have been possible otherwise, there is much more to my story than most people know,” Said Alma Wahlberg in an interview with Boston’s WCVB TV in 2018. ‘I lived with alcoholism and abuse; struggled with poverty and experienced great wealth; lost so much I already loved; struggling to raise nine children, and I love them more than anything else; watch them suffer, learn and come out on the other side; lost myself; found myself again and again; and keep moving, no matter what. ”
Alma Wahlberg is survived by eight children. Her daughter Debbie passed away in 2003.