JON The mother of Bon Jovi, Carol Bongiovi, died three days before her 83rd birthday.
After Carol died on Tuesday at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, New Jersey, Jon, 62, said some very sad things about her.
“Our mother was a force to be reckoned with, her spirit and can-do attitude shaped this family,” Jon said to PEOPLE.
“She will be greatly missed.”The fan club for her son’s band was started by Carol, who used to be a Playboy bunny.
In 1959, she joined the U.S. Marine Corps, which is where she met John Bongiovi, Sr., the man she would later marry.
