Elizabeth is the first wife of Drederick Rubin Irving an American former professional basketball player. At Boston University, where they initially met, Elizabeth was a volleyball player.
She passed away in 1996 due to an illness, leaving behind her daughter Asia and son Kyrie. They were brought up by Irving with the aid of his sisters.
Although Elizabeth was raised primarily in South Dakota and Washington, she was actually born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
She was taken from her birth family at a young age and raised by her adoptive parents, George and Norma Larson.
At Boston University, where Larson resumed her education, she got to know Drederick, Kyrie’s father. At the time, Dred was a sophomore and instantly fell in love with her.
She was a volleyball player for their college team and a sports enthusiast like Irving.
Larson earned her degree in 1989, and the couple dated for a than three years before getting married in 1990.
Drederick relocated with his family from Seattle to Melbourne in 1992 in order to play for the Bulleen Boomers, an Australian team. Kyrie Irving, their son, was born to her on March 23, 1992, not long after.
Their first child, Asia Irving, was born the year before Kyrie.
To join his wife, who had left when Kyrie was only a year old, Dred traveled to New York when his stint with the Boomers ended earlier than he had planned. Elizabeth passed away when she was