First wife of Walt Disney's nephew Roy Edward Disney. They married in 1955 and had four children Roy III, Susan, Abigail, and Timothy. She served as a trustee of Occidental College in L.A. and a regent of St. Mary's College in Moraga CA. She also served as vice chairman for Roy's investment company. She befriended alot of the animators at Walt Disney Animation Studios and she said in a 2006 interview that she jokenly beat former Disney Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg on the head for being a pusher during the making of The Little Mermaid (1989). She and Roy divorced in 2007 after 52 years of marriage and he passed away in 2009 from stomach cancer. She later got Alzheimer's disease and passed away in her Los Angeles home at age 77. She was survived by her 4 children and 17 grandchildren.
First wife of Walt Disney's nephew Roy Edward Disney. They married in 1955 and had four children Roy III, Susan, Abigail, and Timothy. She served as a trustee of Occidental College in L.A. and a regent of St. Mary's College in Moraga CA. She also served as vice chairman for Roy's investment company. She befriended alot of the animators at Walt Disney Animation Studios and she said in a 2006 interview that she jokenly beat former Disney Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg on the head for being a pusher during the making of The Little Mermaid (1989). She and Roy divorced in 2007 after 52 years of marriage and he passed away in 2009 from stomach cancer. She later got Alzheimer's disease and passed away in her Los Angeles home at age 77. She was survived by her 4 children and 17 grandchildren.
