_Photo via Galadrielle Allman’s Facebook page_

Gregg and Duane Allman’s mother, Geraldine Alice Allman, passed away at the age of 98 on Friday. Mama A, as she was affectionately known, raised both her sons as a single mother after her husband Willis Turner Allman was murdered in 1949. The two brothers went on to found the iconic Allman Brothers Band, though Duane would later die in a tragic motorcycle accident in 1971.

Duane Allman’s daughter, Galadrielle Allman, paid tribute to her grandmother on Friday with a Facebook post that partially reads:

I can’t say anything now, but thank you for the outpouring of love for my family. I’ll leave the rest to a yogi my granny turned me on to. She was way beyond me in this and all other things…