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==Personal life== [[Image:THU Luce Memorial Chapel.jpg|thumb|The [[Luce Memorial Chapel]] at [[Tunghai University]] in [[Taiwan]]]] Luce met his first wife, Lila Hotz, while he was studying at [[Yale University]] in 1919.<ref name=LilaHotz>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/03/nyregion/lila-luce-tyng-100-first-wife-of-henry-r-luce.html |title=Lila Luce Tyng, 100, First Wife of Henry R. Luce |first=Nick |last=Ravo |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 3, 1999 |access-date=January 16, 2018}}</ref> They married in 1923 and had two children, Peter Paul and Henry Luce III, before divorcing in 1935.<ref name=LilaHotz/> In 1935, he married his second wife, [[Clare Boothe Luce]], who had an 11-year-old daughter, [[Ann Clare Brokaw]], whom he raised as his own. Luce died of a [[coronary occlusion]] on February 28, 1967 in [[Phoenix, Arizona]]. He was 68.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://time.com/archive/6630572/nation-henry-r-luce-end-of-a-pilgrimage/#:~:text=On%20the%2044th%20anniversary%20of,He%20was%2068 | title=Nation: HENRY R. LUCE: End of a Pilgrimage | date=March 10, 1967 }}</ref> At his death, he was said to be worth $100 million in Time Inc. stock.<ref>{{cite magazine| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=HecCAAAAMBAJ&q=Henry+Luce++%24100+million+in+Time+Inc.+stock&pg=PA93 |title=Why the Power Vacuum at Time Inc. Continues|author= Edwin Diamond|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date = October 23, 1972}}</ref> Most of his fortune went to the Henry Luce Foundation.<ref name="LilaHotz" />
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