Personal Life
Though one of her early suitors was John D. Rockefeller III, Wyatt was married to investment broker Edgar Bethune Ward from November 9, 1935, until his death on November 8, 2000, just one day short of the couple's 65th wedding anniversary. The couple met in the late 1920s when both were weekend houseguests of Franklin D. Roosevelt, at Hyde Park.
She suffered a mild stroke in the 1990s, but recovered well. She remained in relatively good health for the rest of her life.
Jane Wyatt died on October 20, 2006 of natural causes at her home in Bel-Air, California. She was 96 years old. She is buried in San Fernando Mission Cemetery, next to her husband. Wyatt is survived by her sons Christopher and Michael Ward (according to an obituary in The Washington Post, a third son died in infancy in the early 1940s), three grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
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