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  1. Odessa Lee Clay (née O'Grady; February 12, 1917 – August 20, 1994) was the mother of three-time world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and Rahaman Ali, and the paternal grandmother of Laila Ali. She married Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. in the 1930s and worked for some time as a household domestic to help support her young children.

  2. Oct 30, 2022 · Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend and civil rights activist, was descended from Abe Grady, an Irish immigrant from Ennis, County Clare. His mother, Odessa Grady Clay, was the great-granddaughter of Abe and a freed slave from Liberia.

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  3. Aug 23, 1994 · Odessa Lee Grady Clay, mother of the three-time heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, died Sunday at the Hurstbourne Health Center, a nursing home. She was 77 and had been disabled by a...

  4. Mar 26, 2020 · Odessa Clay died of heart failure on August 20, 1994 aged 77 at Hurstbourne Health Center, a nursing home in the Louisville, Kentucky area. She had been disabled by a stroke since...

  5. Aug 23, 1994 · Odessa Clay was a devoted and supportive fan of her son's boxing career, traveling to see him fight around the world. She died in 1994 after a stroke, and Ali could not talk to her in recent months.

  6. Odessa Grady Clay is a short, pillowy woman with freckled fawn skin and an expensive orthodontist. Cash never gave her a bit of trouble. She likes to talk about him as a baby.

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  8. Odessa Lee Clay was born in Hopkins County in western Kentucky. Her parents, John Grady and Birdie Morehead Grady, were divorced about 50 years ago, after which . Grady moved to...