Personal
In 1978, Aiken married James Klonoski, a political science professor at the University of Oregon and one-time chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon. Klonoski died in January 2009. They had a number of children together; one of them, Nick Klonoski, committed suicide using a suicide kit in 2011.
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