Brent Scowcroft - Personal Life

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Scowcroft married Marian Horner, in 1951. His wife, a Pennsylvania native, trained as a nurse at St. Francis School of Nursing in Pittsburgh and graduated from Columbia University. They had one daughter, Karen. Marian Horner Scowcroft, a diabetic, died on July 17, 1995, at George Washington University Hospital. In March 1993, when Scowcroft was invested by Queen Elizabeth with the Honorary KBE, his daughter was also received by the Queen.

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