Inside don ameche’s personal life

The debonair movie and radio star Don Ameche was only married once during his lifetime. He wed Honore Prendergast in , they had six children and the union lasted until her death in That sounds like a storybook romance, but the following paragraph in her obituary from the Des Moines Register indicates it was a bit more complicated:.

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Don Ameche appeared in several radio productions, including a starring role in The First Nighter Program, in the s. He recently won an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in Cocoon. His son, Don Jr. Honore Prendergast Ameche died in at age 78 of a heart ailment in her hometown of Dubuque, Iowa. The Ameches had six children, 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren at the time of her death.

Her obituary lists her surviving children as Don Ameche Jr. The Ameches both had ties to Dubuque, since she was born there and he had attended Columbia College, which is known today as Loras College. He was acting on the old-time radio show First Nighter in Chicago and she was residing in Dubuque the year they married. Modern Screen magazine asked Don how their romance began :.