Bob Dylan, family guy: His cousins thank him in an obituary for his aunt

His mother's sister, Irene Goldfine, died this week at age 95, and his cousins want the world to know how good he was to her.

January 16, 2019 at 7:23PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Photo by David Vincent/ AP
Photo by David Vincent/ AP (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Bob Dylan has always been super private. Remember that the world didn't find out about his second marriage until after he was long divorced and a biographer wrote about it in 2001?

But Dylan has always been something of a family guy. Shows up at family weddings. Hosts Thanksgiving dinner. Those sorts of things. The public just doesn't know about it.

However, his cousins want the world to know how good he was to his Aunt Irene Goldfine. She died this week at age 95. She was a sister to Dylan's late mother, Beatty Zimmerman Rutman.

In Goldfine's paid obituary in the Star Tribune and the Hibbing Daily Tribune (her hometown paper), there was a "thank you to nephews David (Gayle) and Bob, for always taking extra good care of her."

No last names of the nephews were given.

As they say in Yiddish, that Dylan, such a mensch.

about the writer

about the writer

Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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