(26 December 1951 - 04 November 1975) (her death) (1 child)
In 1951, he married actress Sheila Ryan; the marriage ended with her death in 1975. They had a daughter named Kathleen Kerry (nicknamed Kerry) born March 11, 1954.
50 meets her next husband, Pat Buttram, while filming Mule Train with singing cowboy actor Gene Autry
June 51 is the partner of Bob Waterfield, husband of Jane Russell, in his first love scene in Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land
October 51 is in the Movietime U.S.A. caravan, a goodwill tour of the States, along with Gloria Grahame, Scott Brady, MGM producer Leon Gordon, screenwriter Martin Rackin, and the Texas Rangers, a Kansas City male quartette
26 December 51 marries Pat Buttram in Las Vegas. Born in Winston County, Alabama, the son of a circuit-riding minister, Buttram studied theology at Birmingham Southern College.
11 March 54 her daughter, Kathleen Kerry, is born in Los Angeles
March 59 recuperates in the West Valley Community Hospital after major abdominal surgery
March 61 takes part in a fashion show and luncheon by the Coalettes, the women's group of the West Valley Church of Religious Science in Reseda
November 67 is chairman at a theater party for Camelot at Warners Cinerama in Van Nuys
she and Buttram reside in Northridge, California
May 70 attends a party thrown for Senator George Murphy in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Donnelly in Encino. Among the guests are Efrem Zimbailst, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Curtis.
4 November 75 as Katherine Buttram, she dies at age 54 from a mysterious lung ailment at Motion Picture Hospital, Woodland Hills, California. Physicians are unable to diagnose the specific disease that claimed her life. She had been ill for several years. Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Kerry, 19.