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Seymour died by suicide while she was a patient at the Craig house in Beacon, New York. Her suicide came three and a half months after Fonda asked her for a divorce. [7] She is buried in Ogdensburg Cemetery, Ogdensburg, New York .
Sep 19, 2018 · Actress Jane Fonda has opened up about her mother Frances Ford Seymour's suicide in 1950, as well as how she was finally able to come to terms with it years later.
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Aug 17, 2015 · Many were fascinated by her father and mother, Henry Fonda and Frances Ford Seymour, but despite the bright spotlight on her family, there were certain things of which a young Jane was completely unaware. Namely, her parents' troubled relationship and her mother's suicide.
Sep 29, 2014 · Actress Jane Fonda, 76, revealed to an audience of activists and philanthropists on Sunday that her mother had been sexually abused and eventually committed suicide.
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Sep 19, 2018 · In 1950, when Jane was 12 and her mother was 42, she took her own life by slitting her throat while at a nearby mental institution. Henry Fonda told Jane and her bother that their mother’s death...
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Sep 19, 2018 · Fonda's mother, Frances Ford Seymour, was a Canadian-born socialite when she married actor Henry Fonda. They later had Jane and her brother Peter Fonda. Having been in and out of mental institutions, Fonda's mother killed herself at age 42 while institutionalized.
Sep 29, 2014 · Frances Ford Seymour, who was married to the actor Henry Fonda from 1936 to 1950, committed suicide when her daughter was 12. "The minute that I read that, everything fell into place," Fonda, now 76, said from a small stage set up in billionaire Ron Burkle's sprawling backyard.
