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  2. She married again in 1967 to Leslie Midgley, who survived her. [1] Liza Snyder, from the CBS Television series Yes, Dear and Man with a Plan is her granddaughter. [citation needed] In 1990, Furness was treated for stomach cancer, and cut down her schedule on The Today Show to four days.

  3. Apr 4, 1994 · Miss Furness was married three times--in 1937 to composer and conductor John Waldo Green, with whom she had a daughter, Barbara; in 1945 to radio announcer Hugh B. Ernst, who died in 1950, and...

  4. Betty Furness was married three times and had a daughter, Barbara Green, with her first husband. Furness was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1990 and died on April 2, 1994, while undergoing treatment.

  5. Apr 2, 1994 · She was born Elizabeth Mary Furness in New York City the daughter of pioneering radio executive George Furness. A child model starting at age 14, she was signed at 16 by RKO Studios to a film contract. With a new name Betty, she appeared in some forty mostly B-melodramas in the 1930s.

  6. Apr 27, 2022 · Elizabeth Mary "Betty" Furness was born in New York City, the daughter of wealthy business executive George Choate Furness and his wife Florence. Furness made her stage debut in the school holidays in the title role of Alice in Wonderland.

    • New York
    • January 3, 1916
    • Hugh (Bud) B. Ernst, Jr., Leslie Midgley
    • April 2, 1994
  7. Furness was the only child of a New York City business family. Her father, George Choate Furness, worked as a Union Carbon and Carbide Corporation executive. Her mother, Florence Sturtevant, was a homemaker.

  8. Apr 3, 1994 · She is survived by her husband ; a daughter, Barbara Green; three stepchildren, Leslie Midgley, Andrea Connors and Peter J. Midgley, and two grandchildren.