We could see him change right then.”Ĭole’s mother, Perlina, died at the age of 61 in Chicago in 1955, of cancer.įuneral services for the singer have not been completed, but a family spokesman said they probably will be private, at 11 a.m. “We had to tell Nat, and I guess it made him turn for the worse,” his brother Eddie said in Honolulu.
