Family
While serving with the Marines in Hawaii, he met military nurse lieutenant Helena Maria "Obie" O'Brien (1915–1995). They married on February 16, 1946, and had five children (Margaret Ann, Kathleen Pratt Shultz Jorgensen, Edward Milton, Barbara Lennox Shultz White, Alexander George.) In 1997, after the death of Helena, he married Charlotte Mailliard Swig, a prominent San Francisco socialite. Their marriage was called the "Bay Area Wedding of the Year", and they remain a power couple in San Francisco.
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