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Frances Ford Fonda (Seymour)

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Birthplace: Brockville, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada
Death: April 14, 1950 (42)
Beacon, Dutchess County, New York, United States (Suicide)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Eugene Ford Seymour and Mildred Sophie Seymour
Wife of George Tuttle Brokaw and Henry Fonda
Mother of Frances DeVillers Abry Corrias; Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda
Sister of Ford DeVillers Seymour; Marjory Capell Montgomery and Henry Robert Seymour

Occupation: Socialite
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About Frances Ford Fonda

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9795853/frances_ford-seymour

brief biography

Frances Ford Seymour (April 4, 1908 – 14 April 1950) was a New York City socialite, perhaps most famous as the second wife of actor Henry Fonda and the mother of actors Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda. She suffered from mental illness and committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor in 1950 while in a sanatorium. She was 42.

Born in Brockville, Ontario, Canada, she was the daughter of Eugene Ford Seymour and Sophie Mildred Bower (Ontario, July 13, 1886 – Los Angeles, California, April 15, 1974). On January 10, 1931 she married George Tuttle Brokaw, a millionaire and prominent New York City socialite whose previous marriage, to Clare Booth Luce, had ended in divorce. They had one child together, Frances Brokaw. George Tuttle Brokaw died in 1936, leaving Frances Ford Seymour widowed at the age of 28.

That year, Frances Ford Seymour was remarried on 16 September 1936 to actor Henry Fonda, at Christ Church in New York City. The couple had two children, Jane Seymour Fonda, and Peter Fonda.

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Frances Ford Fonda's Timeline

1908
April 4, 1908
Brockville, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada
1931
October 10, 1931
New York, Kings County, New York, United States
1937
December 21, 1937
New York City, New York, United States
1940
February 23, 1940
Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States
1950
April 14, 1950
Age 42
Beacon, Dutchess County, New York, United States
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