Post-Ventriloquism Career
In 1953, she embarked on the second phase of her life: getting married and retiring from show business. In 1966 she enrolled at the State University of New York at Stony Brook to study respiratory and cardiopulmonary therapy.
In 1958 she appeared as a guest challenger on the TV panel show "To Tell The Truth".
She served as the head of the Respiratory Therapy Department at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, New York from 1973 to her second retirement in 1986.
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