Ben Affleck's mom's cause of death revealed after passing at actor's LA home
Key Points:
- Chris Anne Affleck, mother of actors Ben and Casey Affleck, died from cardiopulmonary arrest on June 2 at Ben Affleck’s Los Angeles home, with pancreatic adenocarcinoma as a contributing condition.
- She had been battling pancreatic cancer for months, having been diagnosed in December and given six months to live.
- Chris Anne, a former public school teacher and Harvard graduate, passed away peacefully at age 83, shortly after attending her grandson Atticus’s high school graduation on May 31.
- No autopsy was performed, and her remains were being transported to Earth Funeral in Las Vegas at the time the death certificate was filed.
- She is survived by her two actor sons and five grandchildren, and was remembered fondly as a devoted mother who counted her sons as her "favorite young people."