Editing Marcia Wallace (section)

==Personal life==
Wallace married [[hotelier]] Dennis Hawley on May 18, 1986, in a [[Buddhist]] ceremony.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://data.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/famous-iowans/marcia-wallace| title=Famous Iowans - Marcia Wallace| newspaper=[[The Des Moines Register]]| access-date=November 2, 2015| archive-date=November 5, 2013| archive-url=https://archive.today/20131105011556/http://data.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/famous-iowans/marcia-wallace| url-status=dead}}</ref> The couple adopted an infant son, Michael Wallace "Mikey" Hawley.<ref name="Parsons"/> Dennis died from [[pancreatic cancer]] in June 1992.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://people.com/archive/after-the-laughter-vol-37-no-8/| title=After the Laughter| last=Sanz| first=Cynthia| journal=[[People (magazine)|People]]| date=March 2, 1992| access-date=September 1, 2020}}</ref>

Before her marriage, Wallace was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1985,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.speakwellbeing.com/marcia-wallace.php |title=Marcia Wallace |publisher=The Speak Well Being Group |access-date=December 23, 2008|url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121105318/http://www.speakwellbeing.com/marcia-wallace.php| archive-date=November 21, 2008| df=mdy-all}}</ref> after which she became an activist and lecturer on the subject.<ref name="CA">{{cite web |title=Corporate Speakers - Cancer survivor and speaker Marcia Wallace |url=http://corporateartists.com/speaker_marcia_wallace.html |website=Corporate Artists |access-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060617113433/http://corporateartists.com/speaker_marcia_wallace.html |archive-date=June 17, 2006}}</ref> On January 27, 2007, Wallace won the ''[[Gilda Radner]] Courage Award''. It was annually given by the longtime nationally prominent institution in the medical fight against the disease of [[cancer]], the [[Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center]] in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. It was given to her six years before her death for helping educate Americans about the importance of early cancer detection and inspiring others through her 20 years as a breast cancer survivor.

Wallace was a member of [[Delta Zeta]] sorority from her college years at Parsons College in Iowa, and was named the "Delta Zeta 2010 Woman of the Year" at their 2010 Biennial National Convention in [[Tucson, Arizona]]. Her autobiography,  titled ''Don't Look Back, We're Not Going That Way'', was published in 2004. Besides describing her film and TV career, the book importantly recounts the early detection of her breast cancer, the early loss of her husband Dennis, her [[nervous breakdown]], her single motherhood, and other personal experiences such as a private history of [[bulimia]]. She credited the title of the book to her father, who used the phrase often during her childhood.

She was noted on a list of "[[History of Iowa|Famous Iowans]]" by her important [[state capital]] daily newspaper, the ''[[Des Moines Register]]'', in November 2013.<ref name="Parsons"/>