Later Life
After being dropped by General Mills, she returned to school, earning a doctoral degree in speech education from New York University in 1967.
In a 1997 interview, Cumming, a feminist in private life, recalled instructing her daughter to tell curiosity-seekers that "I am the current incarnation of a corporate image. That'll shut them up".
Her first husband, Mark Hawley, was an announcer and was known as the voice of the Pathe Newsreels. She and her husband were charter members of the American Federation of Radio Artists, now the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
She moved to the Pacific Northwest with her second husband, Naval Air Cmdr. Laurence Gordon Cumming, and taught English as a second language, which she continued until December 18, 1998, giving her final class three days before her death. Cumming died on December 21, 1998 at Harrison Hospital, Bremerton, Washington, aged 93.
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