Marriage and Family
In 1945, she married Rawland F. Smith, a Navy veteran. The couple's only child, a daughter named Linda, was born the following year.
Kroc met McDonald's Corp. founder Ray Kroc while playing piano at a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1957. Kroc said in his autobiography that he "was stunned by her blond beauty". They carried on a secret relationship until they both divorced their spouses and married in 1969. Following Kroc's death in 1984, she acquired his fortune.
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