Preston Cloud - Personal Life

Personal Life

In graduate school, Preston was engaged to Mildred Porter. When Preston resigned from Harvard, they were divorced. In his time at Washington, he married Frances Webster, with whom he had three children, Karen, Lisa and Kevin. The family moved to Minnesota in 1961, and though Preston and Frances were amicably divorced in 1963, two years later Preston relocated the entire family to Santa Barbara, California when he accepted a professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In Santa Barbara, Preston met and, in 1973, married Janice Gibson, an opera singer and mother of three children, Morgan, Dante, and Amanda. Preston and Janis remained together for the remainder of his life. Preston Cloud died at home, on January 16 1991, of pneumonia, brought on as a complication of Lou Gehrig's disease.

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