Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 261-263. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
Graduated from Pembroke College in Brown University in 1933.
Her ancestor, Christopher Hussey, was one of the original purchasers of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.
Is interred with her husband at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California.
Mother of John Longenecker
Step daughter of William O'Rourke
The last surviving cast member of The Philadelphia Story (1940).