{"id":807871,"date":"2026-07-17T13:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807871\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:03:13","slug":"kris-jenners-mother-mary-jo-shannon-dead-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807871\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Jenner&#8217;s mother, Mary Jo Shannon dead at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mary Jo \u201cM.J.\u201d Shannon, grandmother of the Kardashian-Jenner family and a frequent guest on their U.S. reality television show, died on Thursday at the age of 91.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shannon was Kris Jenner\u2019s mother and grandmother to Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kris Jenner announced her mother\u2019s death in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere are no words that could ever capture what she has meant to me or the heartbreak of having to say goodbye,\u201d Jenner said. \u201cMy mom was the heart of our family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jenner said her mother taught her to love her family fiercely, to be kind, to show up for the people she loves and never to take a single moment together for granted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shannon was a frequent guest on \u201cKeeping Up with the Kardashians,\u201d which aired on E! from 2007 through 2021. The reality show, which propelled the Kardashian family to fame, focused on the personal lives of Jenner, her spouse, her children and their relationships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shannon, a cancer survivor who was born in Arkansas, was known to viewers for her dry humor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">IMDb credits Shannon with 12 appearances on \u201cKeeping Up with the Kardashians\u201d and three on Hulu\u2019s successor series \u201cThe Kardashians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; editing by Michelle Nichols<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Jo \u201cM.J.\u201d Shannon, grandmother of the Kardashian-Jenner family and a frequent guest on their U.S. reality television&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[712,49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-807871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}