She lost her brother and husband in the same year: On February 23, 1945, her brother, Lt. Morgan Linder Hobart, USNR, died in a plane crash in Virginia; on December 25, 1945 (some sources erroneously list it as the 26th), her husband, actor
Russell Gleason, was killed in an accidental fall from a fourth-floor window of the Hotel Sutton in New York.