who is ben roethlisberger parents?
Ida Jane Foust Kenneth Todd Roethlisberger
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 Benjamin was married to his wife Barbara , maiden name Hall , from 1941 until her death 54 years later in 1995 . She was attending Framingham State Teachers College when they met , and school rules forbade female students from getting married or they faced expulsion . Town records didn 't publish marriages until after January 1 , each year , so the couple got married at 1 a.m. on New Year 's Day 1941 at her home in Raynham , Massachusetts . This prevented the school from learning about her marriage until after she had graduated . The Benjamins had one son , Richard , and three daughters , Nancy , Janice , and Joanne ; as well as 12 grandchildren , and 11 great @-@ grandchildren . 

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 As a teenager , he met Marie Warshawski at the wedding of a mutual friend . They married in 1973 , and have three sons and a daughter . 

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 The pilot episode begins with Ben Hawkins waking up from a dream of a tattooed man , a man in a tuxedo , and a Russian soldier . Ben 's childhood is revealed in flashbacks and dialogue ; Ben 's father had left the family 's farm when Ben was an infant , leaving him in the care of Flora , Ben 's mother . Late season 1 confirms what early episodes had already suggested – the man in the tuxedo , Henry Scudder , is Ben 's father . In the second season , Ben meets his paternal grandmother , Emma Krohn , and learns she killed her husband Hilton Scudder on the night of Henry 's birth , along with Henry 's older brothers Owen , Gilbert , and Alvin Sr. ( According to Knauf and the HBO website , Emma 's other sons were from a previous marriage to Clarke " C.W. " Powell , who had died by natural causes . ) Emma introduces the people living with her as her grandchildren and Ben 's cousins . 

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 Emanuel 's grandfather was a Romanian Jew from Moldova . The surname Emanuel ( Hebrew : עמנואל ) , which means " God with us " , was adopted by their family in honor of his father 's brother Emanuel Auerbach , who was killed in 1933 in an altercation with Arabs in Jerusalem . 

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 In 2010 he married Nicole , an American woman , who gave birth to his third child , Joshua , in 2011 . 
