Marriage and Family
Percy was a Christian Scientist. During World War II, Percy married Jeanne Dickerson. They had twin daughters, Valerie and Sharon (born 1944), and a son Roger (born 1947). After Jeanne Percy's death in 1947, Percy married Loraine Guyer in 1950. Their children were Gail (born 1953) and Mark (born 1955).
About a year after the murder of her twin sister Valerie, in 1966, Sharon Percy married John D. Rockefeller IV, who was later elected to two terms (1977-1985) as the Democratic Governor of West Virginia and has been a United States Senator from that state since 1985.
He remained active after leaving political office, but suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his later years.
He died on September 17, 2011 at the Washington Home and Community Hospice in Washington, D.C..
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