Trevor Noah Pays Tribute to His Late Grandma Frances Noah aka ‘Gogo’ on Instagram. She died in her sleep at the age of 95.
Trevor Noah is grieving the death of his grandmother who, in his words, demonstrated “the truest meaning of unconditional love.”
The Daily Show presenter revealed on Thursday that his beloved grandmother Frances Noah, often known as Gogo, died at the age of 95.
Obituary: Frances Noah Death Cause
Frances Noah, grandmother of Trevor Noah died at the age of 95 of old age, according to his post on Instagram. He honored his wonderful grandmother with a video of her laughing and smiling.
“How can I smile for a photo when I don’t have teeth?” Gogo said at the start of the emotional homage. In the post, he wrote, “This morning, our family lay to rest the eldest member of our kin, Frances Noah, or Gogo as most of us knew her.”
“My grandmother was born in 1927 and had the finest memory of all of us, despite the fact that she was 95 years old. Every moment spent with her felt like a magnificent voyage through time, as she recounted the family’s greatest pleasures, tragedies, accomplishments, and milestones.”
He explained that her Soweto home wasn’t just a house; it was a haven. It was a place where other women could go when they had nowhere else to go.
It was a place where members of the community would meet to pray together every week, and a place where everyone could feel the love radiating from her powerful heart.
With gratitude emanating from his words, he thanked his followers who adore Gogo and appreciate their condolences and blessings in her memory. “I’ve been crying all week in honor of the best “movie” I’ve ever seen, he wrote.
“It was a narrative that started with my first breath and finished with hers. A woman who demonstrated the genuine meaning of unconditional love to me.”
“She died gently in her sleep, and she even gave us one last Mother’s Day, which she thoroughly appreciated.”
May her rest in peace in the afterlife.
What Happened To Trevor Noah’s Grandmother?
Trevor Noah’s grandmother, Frances Noah aka Gogo, died peacefully in her sleep. She was introduced by the talk show host to The Daily Show listeners during one episode when he visited his homeland in South Africa in 2018.
Noah, ever the comic, sat down with Gogo, then 91, and conducted an interview with her in the style of MTV’s Cribs, which he entitled “Cribs: Oppression Edition.”
While the piece was designed to elicit humor at times. Their discussion regarding Apartheid, the system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed from the late 1940s until the early 1990s, was serious and significant.
During one of the more lighthearted exchanges, Gogo mentioned that she had developed the habit of staring at a photo of her grandson as a youngster shortly after waking up every day.
‘I constantly look at that image and I ask God every morning when I look at “Morning Trevor,”‘ she said, before adding, ‘And he never responds,’ to Noah’s delight.
Gogo described her grandson as “active and incredibly wicked” as a newborn during their conversation. Noah attended Maryvale College in Johannesburg, a private Roman Catholic primary and secondary school.
He moved to the United States in 2011 after obtaining experience in television, radio, and comedy. And the following year he became the first South African stand-up comedian to perform on The Tonight Show.
Frances Noah Will Be Missed By Her Family And Grandchild
Frances Noah was the heart of the Noah family. Her husband may have preceded her in death as there is no information available on him.
Trevor was born to her son-in-law Robert and daughter, Patricia Nombuyiselo. Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah is Xhosa and Robert is of Swiss-German heritage.
Noah’s mother was categorized as Black while his father was classed as White under apartheid regulations. Noah was classed as a Coloured person. Noah’s parents’ interracial relationship was illegal at the time of his birth, as Noah points out in his book.
When the Immorality Act was changed a year after his birth, interracial sexual interactions and marriages were decriminalized. Trevor was reared in the black slum of Soweto by Patricia and her mother, Nomalizo Frances Noah.