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Letters about her happy life with "Babe" Hardy are recounted in John McCabe's biography, "Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy".

Her ashes and those of her second husband, Ben, are interred just a few feet from Ollie's in the Garden of Hope section of Pierce Bros. Valhalla Park, in North Hollywood, California. They are next to a wall bearing a plaque placed in commemoration of the comic genius of Oliver Hardy.

She passed away at St. Joseph's hospital in Burbank, California.

In later years, she regretted that Ollie had followed the dubious treatment plan of a doctor who placed him on a diet of only beets and beet juice, which led to him losing over 125 pounds in a matter of weeks, after which he suffered a series of strokes.

She met Oliver Hardy as a script girl working on "Flying Deuces" in 1939. They were married in Las Vegas the next year.

Following Oliver Hardy's death, she married a Los Angeles businessman, Ben Price, who passed away a few months before her in 1986. They occasionally attended the meetings of Laurel and Hardy appreciation groups as invited guests.

Happily married until Ollie's death in 1957, due to cancer, and complications from stroke, believed brought on by a large and rapid weight loss from dieting. She cared for him at home during the last year of his life when he was tragically incapacitated.