Editing Carleton S. Coon (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Mary Coon in Albania (Carleton Coon, 1929).jpg|thumb|right|Mary Coon ({{nee}} Goodale, left) was married to Coon between 1926 and 1944.]]
Coon married Mary Goodale in 1926. They had two sons, one of whom, [[Carleton S. Coon Jr.]] went on to become Ambassador to Nepal. Coon and Goodale divorced and in 1945 he married Lisa Dougherty Geddes. He was a member of the [[Congregational church|Congregational Church]].<ref name="Schmeck" />

Coon retired from Pennsylvania in 1963, but retained an affiliation with the [[Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology|Peabody Museum]] and continued to write until the end of his life. He appeared on several episodes of television quiz show [[What in the World? (game show)|''What in the World?'']] between 1952 and 1957.<ref name=":7">{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Coon, Carleton Stevens|date=2020|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/anthropology-biographies/carleton-stevens-coon|publisher=Encyclopedia.com|last=Goodrum|first=Matthew R.}}</ref>

Coon died in [[Gloucester, Massachusetts]] on June 3, 1981.<ref name="Schmeck" />