Donald Fagen 's mother 's name is Josephine .
`` The 2017 death of Steely Dan 's co-founder Walter Becker leaves Fagen as the band 's sole member. Fagen was born in Passaic , New Jersey , on January 10 , 1948 , The Times - September 3 , 2017 January 10 , 2009 , Retrieved January 9 , 2010 to Jewish parents , Joseph `` '' Jerry '' '' Fagen , an accountant , and his wife , Josephine , a homemaker who had been a swing singer in upstate New York 's Catskill Mountains from childhood through her teens . ''
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