Marriage and Family
Preer met her husband Edward Thompson when they were both acting with the Lafayette Players in Chicago. They married in 1924 while in Nashville, Tennessee.
In April 1932, Preer gave birth to her only child, a daughter Edeve Thompson. Developing post-childbirth complications, Preer died of double pneumonia on November 27, 1932 in Los Angeles, at the age of 36.
Her husband, Edward Thompson, continued as a popular leading man and "heavy" in numerous race films throughout the 1930s and 1940s. He died in 1960. Their daughter entered Catholic holy orders and is known as Sister Francesca Thompson. She is an assistant dean at Fordham University, New York.
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