Death
In the autumn of 1941, she married industrialist Stuart D. Eckert. Nissen died at home in Montecito, California of Parkinson's disease on May 15, 1988. Greta was 82. Her husband said she still received fan letters. Greta had one son, Tor Bruce Nissen Eckert, who in 2005 gave his large collection of Greta Nissen Memorabilia to the Norwegian Emigrant Museum which is located in Ottestad, county of Hedmark, Norway.
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