Retirement
Following the failure of the three "singing cowgirl" films, and the end of Grand National Pictures, Page retired from acting. She married Los Angeles attorney Frederick D. Leuschner, and they resided at his ranch in Tarzana, California. He died on December 6, 1941, at the age of 36 from heart failure. Page began working in realty, buying old Hollywood houses, remodeling them and selling them at a profit. This second career was very successful financially.
She then married Henry Clark McCormick of Fresno, California, and the two lived at his ranch in Fresno. Page purchased a 1,700-acre (6.9 km2) cotton ranch near Pecos, Texas. During the 1950s she was diagnosed with cancer, and began a long and painful battle against it. She and McCormick divorced during her illness. Page moved to LaBelle, Florida to be closer to Fort Myers, where she was receiving cancer treatment. She died there from cancer on March 26, 1961, at the age of 57.
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