Fourth Marriage
Looking for yet another husband, Nannie joined the Diamond Circle Club and soon met Richard L. Morton of Emporia, Kansas. He didn't have a drinking problem, but he was a womanizer. Morton met his death in April 1953--3 months after Nannie's mother, Lou, had come to live with them and ended up poisoned to death.
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