Did Jeni Stepanek die?

This week, his mother is moving. Jeni Stepanek is leaving the Rockville, Md., condo purchased with the proceeds from her son’s best-selling “Heartsongs” poetry books and where, for Mattie’s final years, they lived together until he died two Junes ago at age 13.Click to see full answer. In respect to this, when did Jeni Stepanek die?Death. Stepanek died at age 13 at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2004. He was interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring, Maryland.Secondly, how did Mattie Stepanek die? Muscular dystrophy Secondly, is Jeni Stepanek alive? Jeni is the mother of Mattie Stepanek, one of Oprah’s greatest spiritual teachers. “Mattie was one of the most authentic, loving souls I have ever known,” Oprah says. “Jeni instinctively knew how to foster and encourage this precious gift to the world.” Mattie passed away on June 22nd, 2004.What happened to Mattie Stepanek dad?MATTIE STEPANEK, 11-YEAR-OLD POET: It’s a rare form of muscular dystrophy called disautonomic myocondrial myopathy. And it’s non- curable. There’s not even a known treatment. STEPANEK: We’re divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.