Editing Earle Page (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Ethel and Earle Page 01.jpg|thumb|right|Page and his first wife [[Ethel Page|Ethel]]]]
Page married [[Ethel Page|Ethel Blunt]] on 18 September 1906. They had met at [[Royal Prince Alfred Hospital]] while he was undertaking his medical residency; she was a senior nurse there. Page soon began courting her, and convinced her to become the matron of his new hospital in Grafton. She gave up nursing after their marriage, but was active in politics and community organisations. The couple had five children: Mary (b. 1909), Earle Jr. (b. 1910), Donald (b. 1912), Iven (b. 1914), and Douglas (b. 1916). Their grandchildren include [[Don Page (politician)|Don Page]], who was active in New South Wales state politics, and [[Geoff Page]], a poet.<ref name=ethel>[http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/page/spouse.aspx Australia's PMs > Earle Page > Ethel Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313153029/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/page/spouse.aspx |date=13 March 2018 }}, National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 29 January 2017.</ref>

Page was predeceased by his first wife and his oldest son. Earle Jr., a qualified veterinarian, was killed by a lightning strike in January 1933, aged 22.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/192160725 STRUCK BY LIGHTNING] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130013732/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/192160725 |date=30 January 2018 }}, ''[[The Daily Examiner]]'', 16 January 1933.</ref> Ethel died in May 1958, aged 82, after a long illness.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136298073 Death Of Lady Page After Long Illness] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123072318/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136298073 |date=23 January 2018 }}, ''[[The Canberra Times]]'', 27 May 1958.</ref> {{Anchor|Jean Page}}On 20 July 1959 at [[St Paul's Cathedral, London]], Page married for a second time, wedding his long-serving secretary Jean Thomas (32 years his junior). [[Stanley Bruce]] was his best man.<ref name=adb/> The second Lady Page lived for almost 50 years after her husband's death, dying on 20 June 2011; her ashes were interred at [[Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney|Northern Suburbs Crematorium]].<ref>''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 9 July 2011 {{Page needed|date=November 2014}}</ref>