Gloria Hatrick McLean
Gloria Hatrick McLean (March 10, 1918 – February 16, 1994)Hatrick was best known for Laugh-In (1977), The Jimmy Stewart Show (1971) and The Jack Benny Program (1950). She was married twice, first to Edward Beale McLean, Jr. with whom she had two sons, Ronald and Michael; the marriage ended in divorce in January 1948. She married actor Jimmy Stewart in 1949, with whom she had two daughters, Judy and Kelly. Her son, Ronald McLean, served as a First Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps, and was killed June 3, 1969 while in combat during the Vietnam War. According to her obituary in the Los Angeles Times, "Mrs. Stewart was active on the boards of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, Natural History Museum, African Wildlife Foundation and St. John's Medical Center, and was a regular at charity dinners, dances and other events supporting those groups. . . . She shared her husband's interests in skeet shooting, fishing, animals and travel. A fan magazine in 1985 called their partnership 'Dream Factory's Outstanding Marriage.'" From the 1950s onward, Mrs. Stewart was a supporter of conserving big-game animals, rather than hunting them, and in time brought her husband around to the same viewpoint.
The couple remained married until her death from lung cancer on February 16, 1994, at the age of 75. She is buried at Forest Lawn-Glendale. When Jimmy died at age 89 in 1997 he was laid to rest next to her.
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