Hank Aaron's Mother Dies

The mother of baseball Hall of Famer and Mobile native, Hank Aaron, has passed away.
Estella Aaron, 96, died Monday morning at an Atlanta hospital.
Aaron raised all eight of her children, including Hank, on Edwards Street in Toulminville.
Friends who knew Estella Aaron say she was a Christian woman, who liked to fish more than she liked baseball.
"She'd go over there on the Causeway and sit and catch the fish, and then she'd go back home, clean it and fry them," said Tom Withers, a family friend.
Estella Aaron stayed away from the spotlight during her son's pursuit of Babe Ruth's record.
Ed Scott, a retired baseball scout who signed Hank Aaron to his first professional contract, says he can count on one hand how many times Estella attended her son's baseball games, but she was in attendance in Atlanta on April 8, 1974, when Hank broke Babe Ruth's home run record.
"She was on the field," said Scott. "She was hugging and all that!"
Estella Aaron will be buried in Toulminville. Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday morning at Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church.