“My angel. Rest in peace,” Mark wrote in the caption of a photo of the family’s matriarch on Instagram.
“My mother Alma’s joy for life, love and people – combined with a pride in her humble beginnings and a refusal to forget where she came from – undoubtedly shaped me into the man I am,” Donnie posted on Instagram.
Donnie Wahlberg’s wife Jenny McCarthy called Alma Wahlberg “the greatest mother-in-law in the world” on Twitter.
The posts did not specify how he died.
Alma appeared on the Wahlberg family’s A&E reality show called “Wahlburgers,” which provided a behind-the-scenes picture of running a family restaurant.
“Alma is the matriarch of the Wahlberg family. As a mother of nine, she saw everything. Alma worked as a bank clerk and nursing assistant to meet her children while raising her children in a tight space on the streets of Dorchester where she grew up, “the show’s website said.