India, Feb. 21 -- Voletta Wallace, the mother of the late Notorious B.I.G., has died at the age of 72. Wallace, the founder of the Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation, died in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, on Friday, February 21, TMZ reported.

Monroe County Coroner Thomas Yanac has confirmed that Wallace died of natural causes. She was in hospice care before her death.

Wallace, a Jamaican immigrant who worked as a school teacher, raised B.I.G. (real name Christopher Wallace) as a single mother in Brooklyn. B.I.G.'s father walked out on the family in 1974.

On March 9, 1997, B.I.G. (also known as Biggie Smalls) was shot dead after leaving a Soul Train Awards afterparty. He was killed in a drive-by while sitting in a green Chevy Suburban...