Editing Ernest Borgnine (section)

==Personal life and death ==
[[File:Jurado-Borgnine-Badlanders.jpg|thumb|upright|Borgnine with future wife, [[Katy Jurado]], in 1958]]
Borgnine married five times. His first marriage, from 1949 to 1958, was to Rhoda Kemins, whom he met while serving in the Navy.<ref name="schmidt">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/marty-ar.html| title=Ernest Borgnine: Fiendish 'Fatso' to Meek 'Marty'|author=M. A. Schmidt| date=April 10, 1955|access-date=November 8, 2012| work=The New York Times}}</ref> They had one daughter, Nancee (born May 28, 1952). He was then married to actress [[Katy Jurado]] from 1959 to 1963. Borgnine's rancorous marriage to actress and singer [[Ethel Merman]] in 1964 lasted only 42 days. Merman's description of the marriage in her autobiography was a solitary blank page. Borgnine's friend [[Tim Conway]] later said: "Ernie is volatile. I mean, there's no question about that, and Ethel was a very strong lady. So you put two bombs in a room, something is going to explode, and I guess it probably did."<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 October 2004 |title=Question: As I remember, ... |url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/question-remember-66699/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727215002/https://www.tvguide.com/amp/news/question-remember-66699/ |archive-date=27 July 2023 |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=[[TV Guide]]}}</ref>

From 1965 to 1972, Borgnine was married to Donna Rancourt, with whom he had a son, Cristopher (born August 9, 1969), and two daughters, Sharon (born August 5, 1965) and Diana (born December 29, 1970). His fifth and final marriage was to [[Tova Borgnine|Tova Traesnaes]]; they remained married from February 24, 1973 until his death.

In 2000, Borgnine received his 50-year pin as a [[Freemason]] at Abingdon Lodge No. 48 in [[Abingdon, Virginia]]. He joined the [[Scottish Rite]] Valley of Los Angeles in 1964, received the Knights Commander of the Court of Honor (KCCH) in 1979, was crowned a 33° Inspector General Honorary in 1983 and received the Grand Cross of the Court of Honour in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scottishrite.org/2011/04/dedication-of-long-beach-scottish-rite-theatre-to-actor-brother-ernest-borgnine|title=Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, S.J., U.S.A.: Dedication of Long Beach Scottish Rite Theatre to Actor & Brother Ernest Borgnine|publisher=Scottishrite.org|date=May 7, 2011|access-date=January 24, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510063626/http://scottishrite.org/2011/04/dedication-of-long-beach-scottish-rite-theatre-to-actor-brother-ernest-borgnine/|archive-date=May 10, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Borgnine was a heavy smoker until 1962.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/duneland/chesterton/chesterton-town-manager-remembers-borgnine/article_8fb1e74d-8ee5-55f9-8da0-90a0e884d879.html |title=Chesterton town manager remembers Borgnine |author=Heather Augustyn |work=[[The Times of Northwest Indiana]] |date=July 15, 2012 |location=Munster, Indiana}}</ref>

At the age of 95, Borgnine died of [[renal failure]] on July 8, 2012 at [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]]. He had undergone surgery a month prior to his death and had been to the hospital days before it for a [[physical examination|medical checkup]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ernest-borgnine-was-in-excellent-health-until-recent-illness/ | title=Ernest Borgnine was "in excellent health" until recent illness - CBS News | website=[[CBS News]] | date=July 9, 2012 }}</ref> He was cremated and given a [[military funeral]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.militarynews.com/norfolk-navy-flagship/news/quarterdeck/u-s-navy-renders-honors-at-funeral-of-ernest-borgnine/article_f9c4491a-975d-5358-8f12-35cfef80981e.html | title=U.S. Navy renders honors at funeral of Ernest Borgnine | date=July 19, 2012 }}</ref>