Editing Ellsworth Bunker (section)

==Personal life==
Bunker married a neighbor, Harriet Allen Butler, daughter of Ellen Mudge and George Prentiss Butler, in [[Yonkers, New York]] on April 24, 1920.<ref>{{cite news |title=Marriage Announcement: Bunker-Butler |date=April 26, 1920
|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/04/26/98586050.pdf
|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2008-07-03 }}</ref> Harriet had made friends with Bunkers' sister Katherine when the two girls attended [[Miss Porter's School]] in Farmington, Connecticut.<ref name=SchafferHB-p16>{{cite book |last=Schaffer |first=Howard B.|title=Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk |url=https://archive.org/details/ellsworthbunkerg00scha |url-access=limited |year=2003 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-2825-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ellsworthbunkerg00scha/page/n32 16]}}</ref> They had three children, John Birkbeck, Samuel Emmet, and Ellen Mudge.<ref>Schaffer. p.16.</ref> She died in 1964.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Envoy to Saigon; Ellsworth Bunker |date=March 16, 1967 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/16/archives/new-envoy-to-saigon-ellsworth-bunker.html |format=fee |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2008-07-03}}</ref>

On January 3, 1967 he married fellow ambassador [[Carol Laise|Caroline Clendening "Carol" Laise]] in [[Katmandu, Nepal]].<ref>{{cite news|agency=[[Associated Press]] |title=In Brief|newspaper=Lewiston Evening Journal|date=January 4, 1967}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=U.S. Ambassadors Wed in Nepal; Carol C. Laise, Envoy in Katmandu, and Bunker Married: Two U.S. Envoys Are Wed In Nepal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/01/04/archives/us-ambassadors-wed-in-nepal-carol-claiseenvoy-in-katmandu-and.html |url-access=subscription |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 4, 1967 |access-date=2008-07-02 }}</ref> Their marriage was the first between two American Ambassadors on active duty.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |title=Ambassadors Laise and Bunker Are Married |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112108168839&seq=23 |journal=State Department Newsletter |pages=15 |via=Hathitrust}}</ref> Later that year, Bunker was named ambassador to [[South Vietnam]] and for nearly the first six years of their marriage they only saw each other monthly, via a special government flight offered by President Johnson as enticement for Bunker to accept the post.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gillette |first=Michael L. |date=December 9, 1980 |title=Transcript, Ellsworth Bunker Oral History Interview I, 12/9/80 |url=http://memory.loc.gov/service/mss/mssmisc/mfdip/2005%20txt%20files/2004bun01.txt |accessdate=2011-02-20 |publisher=LBJ Library}}</ref> Laise died in 1991. Ambassador Laise was a friend of the first Mrs. Bunker.<ref>{{cite news |first=Joan |last=Cook |date=July 26, 1991 |title=Carol Laise, 73, Ex-Ambassador and High State Dept. Aide, Dies |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEED81739F935A15754C0A967958260 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2008-07-03 }}</ref>

Bunker died on September 27, 1984, at his dairy farm in [[Putney, Vermont]].<ref>{{cite news |date=October 4, 1984 |title=Ellsworth Bunker Is Buried Near His Home in Vermont |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504EEDD123BF931A35753C1A962948260 |access-date=2007-05-29 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ellsworth Bunker, Longtime Diplomat|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=September 28, 1984}}</ref> The funeral was attended by his good friend and neighbor former senator [[George Aiken]] and former president [[Richard M. Nixon]]. Aiken died two months later.<ref>{{cite news |agency=United Press International|title=George Aiken, Former Senator Dies|newspaper=[[Record-Journal]]|date=November 20, 1984}}</ref>

His middle child, John Birkbeck Bunker (March 8, 1926 – May 26, 2005), a first lieutenant in World War II, died of cancer at his home in [[Wheatland, Wyoming]] at age 79.<ref>{{citation |title=Obituaries |newspaper=[[Brattleboro Reformer]] |date=June 4, 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Death Notice |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=June 5, 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |author=Culver, Virginia |date=June 7, 2005 |title=A Colorado Life: Sugar exec let others get in on his sweet life |newspaper=[[The Denver Post]] |page=C-13 }}</ref>