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==Personal life== Fay Bainter and Reginald Venable were married on June 8, 1921, in Riverside, California.<ref name="LATimes"/> Cmdr. Reginald Venable was a United States Navy officer who graduated from the [[US Naval Academy]] in 1913. He resigned from the Navy in 1925 as a lieutenant commander to manage his wife's business affairs. He had been a real-estate operator.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Reginald S. H. Venable, 74, Was Fay Bainter's Husband|author=|date=September 29, 1964|work=The New York Times|page=43|quote=Reginald S. H. Venable of Palm Springs, Calif., husband of Fay Bainter, the actress, died yesterday in a hospital there. He was 74 years old. Mr. Venable, who resigned from the Navy in 1925 as a lieutenant commander, had managed his wife's business affairs and had been a real-estate operator.|id={{ProQuest|115587529}}}}</ref> The couple had one son, Reginald Venable Jr., who became an actor.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Fay Bainter, 'Motherly' Actress, Dies|agency= Associated Press|date=April 17, 1968|work=[[Press and Sun-Bulletin|The Evening Press]]|page=8-B|quote=Plans were for her to be buried in Arlington national Cemetery in Virginia beside her husband, Navy Lt. Comdr. Reginald Venable, who died in 1964. Their son, actor Reginald Venable, Jr., survives.|id={{ProQuest|2043678747}}}}</ref> Bainter was the aunt of actress [[Dorothy Burgess]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Obituaries: Dorothy Burgess|author=|date=August 25, 1961|work=The Hollywood Reporter|page=9|quote=Actress Dorothy Burgess, niece of Fay Bainter, died Sunday of cancer. Burial was Wednesday.|id={{ProQuest|2339687816}}}}</ref> Bainter and Venable are interred at [[Arlington National Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Patterson |first1=Michael Robert |title=Fay Okell Bainter β Navy Spouse & Actress |url=https://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/fobainte.htm |website=Arlington National Cemetery |access-date=October 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031229164355/http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/fobainte.htm |archive-date=December 29, 2003 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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