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{{Character|status = Unknown|name = Billy's mother|image =  Billys mother.png|marital = Divorced from [[Neil Hargrove]]|relatives = [[Billy Hargrove]] † <small>(son)</small><br>[[Max Mayfield]] <small>(former stepdaughter)</small>|other_relations = [[Minor Characters/Season 3#Wendy|Wendy]] <small>(friend)</small>|gender = Female|eyes = Blue|hair_color = Blonde|portrayer = [[Beth Riesgraf]]|appearances = [[E Pluribus Unum|23]], [[The Battle of Starcourt|25]], [[The Piggyback|34]]}}'''An unnamed woman''', portrayed by [[Beth Riesgraf]], is a minor character in the [[Stranger Things/Season 3|third season]] of [[Stranger Things|''Stranger Things'']] and was the '''mother''' of [[Billy Hargrove]].

==History==
===Background ===
Billy's mother lived in California with her son Billy and her husband [[Neil Hargrove]]. She had a friend named Wendy. She loved Billy and supported his surfing hobby, but Neil's accusations of her cheating on him and physical abuse towards her eventually drove her to abandon her son in order to escape. Billy tried to get his mother to come home, but not to avail. His mother's departure allowed Neil to gain full custody of Billy and abuse him even further, turning him into a cruel violent bully. 

=== 1985 ===
By 1985, the Hargroves and the Mayfields had moved to [[Hawkins]], [[Indiana]]. There, Billy was [[The Flayed|possessed]] by [[The Mind Flayer|an entity]] from [[The Upside Down|another dimension]]. To break him out of this possession, a girl named [[Eleven]] reminded Billy of his mother, providing a description of her and a day when Billy and his mother were at the beach. Soon afterwards, Billy was killed by [[The Spider Monster|the proxy body]] of the entity.

==Appearance==
She has shining blue eyes and long, wavy blonde hair. At the beach, she wore a long white flowing dress with a blue and red flower, sparkly pink nail polish, hoop earrings, a butterfly necklace, yellow sandals, and a hat with a blue ribbon.

==Personality==
Billy's mother was much kinder and loving to Billy than Neil was. She seemed to enjoy spending time with her son on the beach away from Neil. When she had enough of Neil's abuse, she divorced him, leaving Billy to be raised by his father. She was not a pushover, as she struck Neil over the head when he cornered her spewing presumably false accusations.

==Relationships==
*[[Neil Hargrove]] - Ex-Husband
*[[Billy Hargrove]] † - Son

==Apperances==
{{Season Three Appearances|6 = note|8 = note}}
{{Season Four Appearances|no|no|no|no|no|no|no|no|note}}

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Can be seen via vision in "[[E Pluribus Unum]]"

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Seen in via flashback in "[[The Battle of Starcourt]]" and "[[The Piggyback]]"

==Family tree==
{{Hargrove Family Tree}}

==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*Her name is never mentioned in the series.

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