Personal Life
Agronsky married Helen Smathers, a United States Army nurse whom he met while covering General Douglas Macarthur in Melbourne, Australia in 1942. Agronsky returned to the U.S. in March 1943 whereupon he expedited Lt. Smathers' return to the States where they were married in Baltimore, Maryland at City Hall, grabbing a stranger off the street to be their best man. They went on to have four children, Marcia, Jonathan, David and Julie, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The marriage ended with her death in 1969. Agronsky then married Sharon Hines in 1971; the marriage produced one child, Rachel.
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