I can assure you, this was a complete ad lib by Letterman. He woke my dad up from his daily 4 P. Letterman was right. But there was no way Sid was going to sue Dave. On Late Night, Letterman made it a habit to call his mother on air. Their interaction begins at the mark. Mengering was naturally unassuming—which made her the perfect foil for her boisterous son, as seen in this clip, in which Mengering describes her experience lunching on reindeer steak in Norway.
He died in , and she married structural engineer Hans P. Mengering, who died in Once famous, she put out a cookbook, 's "Home Cookin' With Dave's Mom," that included recipes such as "Dave's Fried Baloney Sandwich" and the secrets behind many of the pies she had baked for the show. Skip to content. Mengering died Tuesday, April 11, , his publicist confirmed. Over her lifetime, she reread her well-worn volumes many times, savoring their simple and beautiful language, most recently eight decades after she first turned those pages.
After nearly 96 years of living fully, Dorothy Hofert Letterman Mengering died peacefully at home in Carmel on April 11, at age David Letterman: His shift from limelight to leisure. Highlights: Great TV moments with Dave's mom. She graduated from Linton-Stockton High School and then studied business skills at Indiana University, traveling back on the weekends to Linton, where she met H. Joe Letterman, a church organist and grower of fine dahlias and gladiolas.
In , they married and left Linton for Indianapolis, where Joe started his career as a florist at Berterman Brothers. Joe opened a flower shop on 34th Street and later on Keystone Avenue. They raised three children, Jan, David and Gretchen, as well as impressive backyard gardens that boasted a wide variety of vegetables, raspberry brambles and blueberry bushes. Taking one would send them all crashing to the floor.
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