Bill Belichick’s mother, Jeannette, died from natural causes late Monday night in Annapolis, Md., a source confirmed Tuesday evening. She was 98.
She met Steve Belichick at Hiram College in Ohio the 1940s when she worked as a foreign language professor and he was the school’s athletic director.
They married in 1950 and had Bill, their only child, in 1952. Steve Belichick died in 2005 at 85.
In 2005, Bill Belichick made a donation to Hiram to honor his parents’ time at the school, according to a story on the Patriots team website. The donation was used to create a reading room and endowment in Jeannette’s name and an athletic center in honor of Steve.