One year after his mother Carol Baldwin passed away at the age of 92, Baldwin, 65, expressed how much he misses her in an Instagram post on Friday.
It’s difficult to think that it has been a year since the matriarch of the Baldwin family passed away, Alec wrote in the post’s description, which featured a photo of his mother Carol. Even though there are still many days when it might make us gasp, we continue to work to uphold her legacy in spite of how much we miss her.
The Rust actor invited his followers and admirers to share their stories and learn more about the nonprofit organization run by the Baldwin family, The Baldwin Fund Carol’s Cardinals.
“Please come and join us. Find out how YOU can carry on the work she started by showing compassion, loving others, and finding a cure. Help us by reading Carol’s Cardinals today and letting others know about it.
Among Carol’s six children were Alec’s siblings Daniel, William, Stephen, Elizabeth, and Jane. Additionally, she had 14 great-grandchildren and 25 grandkids. “My mother taught me about second acts,” Alec said in a statement from the previous year. similarly, third ones. For the last 25 years of her life, she campaigned for and promoted the cause to which she had committed so much of her energy. We all have the utmost respect for what she has accomplished.
“Carol Baldwin raised her children and, when her last was a teenager, went to work in marketing research for a company called Quick Test, operating out of a nearby shopping mall,” Alec stated about his mother when he shared the news of her passing in 2022. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991. After regaining health, she worked with several Long Island-based breast cancer support groups to launch a project with SUNY Stony Brook.
The next year, in cooperation with Shirley Strum Kenny, the school’s president at the time, the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund was founded on the Stony Brook campus. Eventually, SUNY Upstate University received a branch. Thanks to everyone’s efforts, millions of dollars have been raised for the cause, he claimed.
The emotional Instagram picture included a note from Alec in which he said, “My mother taught me about second acts. Likewise third ones. Throughout her final 25 years, she campaigned for and promoted the cause to which she devoted her life. We all have the utmost respect for what she has accomplished.
Baldwin also completed Rust’s production this week, more than two years after Halyna Hutchins, the film’s cinematographer, passed away.