From his biography>
Ralph Hōtere married three times, first to office assistant Betty Rameka in Whāngārei on 1 September 1959. They were divorced in 1972, and Hōtere married poet Priscilla Muriel Smith (Cilla McQueen) at Port Chalmers on 8 June 1973. He legally adopted Cilla’s daughter Andrea. Hōtere and McQueen divorced in 1987, and on 20 February 2002 he married artist Mary Jane McFarlane in Dunedin.
