Momma D: Household fears 95-year-old grandmother died in Eaton Fireplace: ‘We simply wish to know’

A household is reeling with the uncertainty of whether or not their 95-year-old grandmother is lifeless after the Eaton Fireplace tore by means of her Altadena house.

Dalyce Kelley had dropped off her grandmother, Dalyce Curry, at house round midnight. Curry, often called “Momma D,” was exhausted after spending a full day within the hospital.

Kelley, who’s her grandmother’s part-time caregiver, needed to maintain different members of the family and left for the night. Kelley, like hundreds of others, did not assume the fireplace – which had sparked simply hours earlier, would flip into the monster it might grow to be.

Dalyce woke as much as a textual content alert that energy had gone out at her grandmother’s home and she or he rushed to the smoke-filled Altadena space very first thing to examine on Momma D.

“I am sorry your grandmother’s property is gone. It completely burned down,” an officer stated when she reached a barricade. He prompt Kelley examine the Pasadena Civic Heart the place displaced residents had been being despatched.

Momma D has not been seen since that night time.

By Friday, Kelley was escorted by a member of the nationwide guard to her house.

“It was complete devastation,” Kelley stated. “All the things was gone besides her blue Cadillac.”

Mamma D was a part of Outdated Black Hollywood within the Fifties, appearing for many years.

She was an additional in iconic movies like “The ten Commandments”, “Blues Brothers” and “Girl Sings the Blues”.

Regardless of being 95 years previous, her granddaughters say she nonetheless had loads of life to dwell.

“She was very energetic, you wouldn’t assume she was 95,” granddaughter Loree Beamer-Wilkinson stated.

Kelley continues to be praying for a miracle, however fears the more serious.

“Truthfully we do not really feel very hopeful that she’s nonetheless right here with us.”