-

Doris Adkisson, matriarch of the Von Erich family, passes away

Doris Adkisson, the wife of Fritz Von Erich and the mother of the six Von Erich kids, passed away last night according to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer. She lived on the island of Kauai in Hawaii.

Doris outlived five of her sons and her ex-husband in a life filled with tragedies. The Von Erich kids, Jack, David, Kerry, Mike, and Chris all passed away, leaving Kevin as the only surviving member of this legendary wrestling family.

The Von Erich family tragedies started when Jack, the first son, drowned at just the age of six in 1959. David died in 1984 after an apparent heart attack according to the family however many put questions on that cause of death and a drug overdose is speculated to be the real cause. Mike committed suicide in 1987 by overdosing on a tranquilizer. Chris also committed suicide in 1991 with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and finally their brother Kerry, known as the Texas Tornado in the WWE, continued the suicide trend in 1993 with a fatal gunshot to the heart. Their father Fritz died in 1997 of lung cancer that had also spread to his brain.

The story of the Von Erich family is one of the saddest in professional wrestling. In 2009, the Von Erich family was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.


Discover more from Wrestling-Online.com

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Colin Vassallo
Colin Vassallohttps://www.wrestling-online.com
Colin Vassallo has been editor of Wrestling-Online since 1996. He is born and raised in Malta, follows professional wrestling and MMA, loves to travel, and is a big Apple fan!

Stories you might also likeRELATED
Recommended to you

LATEST NEWS

Ricochet gets AEW International title match at Full Gear

The AEW International title will be up for grabs at the Full Gear pay-per-view this weekend as champion Konosuke...

NXT rating for 11/19/2024

NXT this week drew 672,000 viewers, up 41,000 viewers from the prior week. The show had a 0.19 rating...

Jon Moxley says AEW has to be a success or business goes back 20 years

Speaking to TVInsider.com ahead of this weekend's Full Gear pay-per-view, AEW World champion Jon Moxley said that it is...

Discover more from Wrestling-Online.com

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading