She was an old woman who could barely walk but was tough as nails,” he said. “I called her “Mamaw,” the name we hillbillies gave to our grandmothers.” He added: “She was a woman of ...

In Vance’s book “Hillbilly Elegy,” he credits “Mamaw” with grounding him while growing up while his mother struggled with drug addiction. In December, Paul Horn said Bonnie Vance lived ...

Mamaw, in her Academy Award-nominated role in director Ron Howard'sHillbilly Elegy, a 2020 Netflix biopic about Vance's life adapted from the Ohio senator's memoir of the same name." Close said ...

often called "Mamaw." And in 2021, upon entering politics, he removed the periods from his initials, a detail noted in his official U.S. Senate biography, which lists his first name as JD.