Editing Ferguson Jenkins (section)

==Personal life==
Jenkins had three daughters with his first wife, Kathy, whom he divorced in 1987.<ref name="control">{{cite news |last1=Banks |first1=Don |title=Still struggling to regain his control |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/03/20/still-struggling-to-regain-his-control/ |access-date=19 July 2023 |work=[[Tampa Bay Times]] |date=March 20, 1993 |language=en}}</ref>

Jenkins had one child, a daughter named Samantha, with his second wife, Maryanne. In December 1990, Maryanne broke her neck in a car accident near their ranch in [[Guthrie, Oklahoma]]. She died from pneumonia in January 1991.<ref name="control" /><ref name="murder-suicide">{{cite news |last1=Kuhlman |first1=Judy |title=Girlfriend, Child Of Baseball Star Found Dead in Car |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1992/12/17/girlfriend-child-of-baseball-star-found-dead-in-car/62473214007/ |access-date=19 July 2023 |work=[[The Oklahoman]] |date=December 17, 1992}}</ref>

In December 1992, Jenkins' girlfriend, Cynthia Takieddine, and Jenkins' three-year-old daughter, Samantha Jenkins, died of [[carbon monoxide poisoning]] in her car near [[Perry, Oklahoma]].<ref name="murder-suicide" /> It was ruled a [[murder-suicide]] although Takieddine's motives were not clear in the suicide note. It did say she loved Samantha and could not bear to leave her.<ref name="control" />