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357:(1943). While entertaining at a serviceman's canteen event, she met a Marine Major named George T. Lumpkin, and they married in 1945. After her first marriage ended, she later married Allan Schlaff, a PhD fellow clinical psychologist, on February 21, 1958. Schlaff died in 1972. Riordan died in 1984 of breast cancer.
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