Had 3 sons: Derek (b.1980, a health and wellness distributor); Tyler Posey (b.October 18, 1991, an actor) & Jesse Posey (b.1994, a college student and baseball player) with her now widowed husband John Posey.
In 2011 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. As of early December 2014 she was terminal. On December 12th she died after 4 years of battle with breast cancer aged 55.