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==Personal life and death== Angell was married three times. He had two daughters, Callie and Alice, with his first wife, Evelyn Baker, to whom he was married for 19 years before divorcing.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/25/classified/paid-notice-deaths-nelson-evelyn-baker.html |title=Evelyn Baker Nelson obituary |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 25, 1997 |access-date=May 20, 2022}}</ref> Angell had a son, John Henry, with his second wife, Carol Rogge. After 48 years of marriage, Carol Angell died on April 10, 2012, at the age of 73 of [[metastatic breast cancer]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Paid Notice: Deaths, Angell, Carol Rogge |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06EFDD1F3AF937A25757C0A9649D8B63 |access-date=February 27, 2013 |newspaper=New York Times |date=April 14, 2012}}</ref> In 2014, he married Margaret "Peggy" Moorman.<ref name="AP-Obit">{{cite news |last1=Italie |first1=Hillel |title=Longtime New Yorker writer, editor Roger Angell dies |url=https://apnews.com/article/sports-eb-white-garrison-keillor-roger-angell-62f402f5f43d38df6804e51e55bfcd2f |access-date=July 11, 2022 |publisher=Associated Press |date=May 20, 2022 }}</ref><ref name="MarkSinger20200905">{{cite magazine |last1=Singer |first1=Mark |title=Roger Angell at a Hundred |magazine=The New Yorker |date=September 5, 2020 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/14/roger-angell-at-a-hundred |access-date=May 21, 2022 |quote=He recalls a threat from Carol as her death neared: 'If you haven't found someone else by a year after I'm gone I'll come back and haunt you.' He obliged in the summer of 2014, when he and Moorman married a week or so before he was inducted into the writerβs section of the Baseball Hall of Fame...}}</ref> His daughter Callie, an authority on the [[Andy Warhol#Films|films of Andy Warhol]], died by suicide on May 5, 2010, in [[Manhattan]], where she worked as a curator at the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]]; she was 62.<ref name=niko>{{cite news |last=Koppel |first=Niko |title=Callie Angell, Authority on Warhol Films, Dies at 62 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/arts/artsspecial/11angell.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 10, 2010}}</ref> In a 2014 essay, he mentioned her death β "the oceanic force and mystery of that event" β and his struggle to comprehend that "a beautiful daughter of mine, my oldest child, had ended her life".<ref name="This Old Man">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/17/old-man-3 |title=This Old Man |last=Angell |first=Roger |date=February 24, 2014 |newspaper=The New Yorker |issn=0028-792X |access-date=March 2, 2016 }}</ref> Angell died of [[congestive heart failure]] at his home in Manhattan on May 20, 2022, at the age of 101.<ref name="nytimes1" /><ref name="AP-Obit" /><ref name="Reuters-Obit" />
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