The Swayze family has suffered another lost.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Patrick Swayze's mother, Patsy, died on Monday in California at the age of 86. She reportedly suffered a stroke on Sept. 8, days before the fourth anniversary of her son's Sept. 14 death from pancreatic cancer.
Swayze was reportedly recovering at her Simi Valley, Calif., home when she passed. Her surviving son, Don, and other family members, were by her the night when she died. The Houston native was a dance instructor and a choreographer, whose training and dance expertise helped catapult her son to his "Dirty Dancing" fame.
According to the Daily Mail, Swayze is also the person who introduced her last son to his wife Lisa Niemi, whom the actor was married to for 34 years until his death .
"She probably won't last out the week," a family member reportedly told The National Enquirer. "One bright spot is that her chain stroke breathing, which is a gasping for air, has subsided."
Swayze is best known for choreographing scenes for films such as "Urban Cowboy," "Hope Floats" and "Liar's Moon," Swayze directed a dance studio in Simi Valley, where she moved her family after she achieved success in Hollywood.
Among some of Patsy students are Broadway star Tommy Tune, Randy Quaid, "Fame" director Debbie Allen and all five of her children.
Her interest in dance was sparked after a childhood car accident. Her mother enrolled her in dance classes to help her recover from the accident and rebuild her strength, Patry told a Simi Valley newspaper in 2007, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Swayze is preceded in death by her husband, Jesse who died in 1982, her daughter, Vickie, who died in 1994 and Patrick. She is survived by her three remaining children, Don, Sean and Bambi.
