Jennifer Garner has had a successful career in Hollywood, but she has also stayed close to her parents.

The actress wrote on social media on Monday that her dad had died. He was 85 years old.

William John Garner was Jennifer Gardner’s dad. Who was he? KBTX News 3 says that William John “Billy”

Garner went to Texas A&M University and got his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering in 1961 and his Master of Chemical

Engineering in 1976. Stephen Garner was the dad of Jennifer Garner, Susannah Kay Garner Carpenter, and Melissa Garner Wylie.