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==Personal life== Henry Ford II was married three times: * Anne McDonnell (1919<ref>Social Security Death Index; Ford: The Men and the Machine (Little, Brown & Co., pub.), c. 1986 by Robert Lacey, First Edition; New York State Census, 1925; Edsel & Eleanor Ford House (Guide-books, by James A. Bridenstine, Genealogy, p. 101, chart)</ref>β1996), a daughter of James Francis McDonnell.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book| title=Ford: The Men and the Machine| url=https://archive.org/details/fordmenmachin00lace| url-access=registration| publisher=Little, Brown & Co.| year=1986| first=Robert| last=Lacey| edition=First| page=[https://archive.org/details/fordmenmachin00lace/page/101 101]| isbn=9780316511667}}</ref> They married in 1940 and divorced in 1964. The Fords had three children including [[Edsel Ford II]]<ref>{{cite news| title=Anne Ford Johnson, 76, Dies; Influenced Fashion and Arts| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/31/nyregion/anne-ford-johnson-76-dies-influenced-fashion-and-arts.html| last=Nemy| first=Enid| date=March 31, 1996| work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> * [[Cristina Ford|Maria Cristina Vettore]] (1929β2008), formerly wife of Robin Willoughby Merivale Austin, a Canadian in the British Royal Navy; she and Ford married in New York City in 1965 and divorced in 1980.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name=house>{{cite book| title=Edsel & Eleanor Ford House| first=James A.| last=Bridenstine| page=101| date=February 1989| publisher=Wayne State University Press}}</ref> * Kathleen DuRoss (born Kathleen Roberta King, 1940 β 2020),<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>{{Citation | author = Karen Bouffard| title = Kathleen DuRoss Ford, widow of Henry Ford II, dies at 80 | newspaper = The Detroit News| date = May 9, 2020 | url = https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2020/05/09/kathleen-duross-ford-widow-henry-ford-ii-dies-80/3104647001/ | access-date = May 11, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200511155402/https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2020/05/09/kathleen-duross-ford-widow-henry-ford-ii-dies-80/3104647001/ | archive-date = May 11, 2020}}</ref> widow of L. David DuRoss<ref>1940 U.S. Federal Census</ref> (died 1959);<ref>Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Provo, Utah, U.S.A., Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006), www.ancestry.com, Database online, records for L. David DuRoss</ref> she and Ford were married in Carson City, Nevada, 1980. By this marriage, Ford had two stepdaughters. Ford died of [[pneumonia]] in Detroit at [[Henry Ford Hospital]] on September 29, 1987, at age 70. After a private funeral service at [[Christ Church Grosse Pointe]], his remains were cremated and the ashes scattered.<ref name=lat100>{{cite news| title=100 Close Relatives, Friends at Rites for Henry Ford II| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-10-02-mn-7753-story.html| date=October 2, 1987| work=Los Angeles Times| agency=[[United Press International]]| access-date=August 9, 2017}}</ref>
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