Later Years and Death
Buck was paroled shortly after her sterilization was performed. She eventually married Charlie Dentamore to whom she remained married until her death. Reporters and researchers that visited Buck later in life claimed she was a woman of normal intelligence. Later in life, she expressed regret that she had been unable to have additional children.
Buck died in a nursing home in 1983; she was buried in Charlottesville near her only child, Vivian, who had died at age eight.
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