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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Frederick Santee was first married to Edith Rundle, who was 13 years older than him. They met while both were in Rome studying Latin. Edith was also a Latin scholar and graduated from college in 1914 with an A.B. and a B.S. Santee later claimed that he felt pressured to marry her and only did so out of kindness, not because he was in love with her. They adopted a daughter, Ruth, while living in Nashville in 1930. They divorced in 1941 and Edith moved to the Philippines to teach at a government school.
Frederick Santee was first married to Edith Rundle, who was 13 years older than him. They met while both were in Rome studying Latin. Edith was also a Latin scholar and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1914 with an A.B. and B.S. in education with a specialization in Latin. Santee later claimed that he felt pressured to marry her and only did so out of kindness, not because he was in love with her. They adopted a daughter, Ruth, while living in Nashville in 1930. They divorced in 1941 and Edith moved to the Philippines to teach at a government school. She was alive until at least 1965.


He later married Betty Addis of Philadelphia. They remained married for 21 years until her death at the age of 57.
Immediately following his divorce from Edith, Santee married Betty Addis of Philadelphia in 1941. They remained married for 21 years until her death at the age of 57.


===Daughter===
===Daughter===
Santee's only child, Ruth, married an older man as soon as she turned 18. She divorced him shortly after marrying and then married Juan V. Zaragoza. Her marriage to Juan was extremely difficult due to his violent outbursts which were so extreme that the police became involved numerous times. They had a daughter together, Rebecca Zaragoza, and divorced in 1962.
Santee's only child, Ruth, married William Joseph McKnight in a private ceremony one month before her 18th birthday in 1948. They had met while in Neosho high school and were freshmen at the University of Missouri in Columbia together. William served in the coast guard for 18 months after their wedding, straining the marriage. The had one daughter, Rebecca, before divorcing.


Ruth then married her third and final husband, Alfred Jenanyan. Together, they had one daughter, Sheila Kathlyn Jenanyan, in 1953. Ruth died in 1965 at the age of 33.
Ruth then married Juan V. Zaragoza. Her marriage to Juan was extremely difficult due to his violent outbursts which were so extreme that the police became involved numerous times. Together, they had one daughter, Sheila Kathlyn Jenanyan, in 1953. They ultimately divorced in 1962.
 
Ruth then married her third and final husband, Alfred Jenanyan, who raised her two daughters as though they were his own.
 
Ruth died in 1965 at the age of 35, although her obituary erroneously printed her age as 33.


==Author==
==Author==