Her second husband, retired USAF Maj. Gen.
Clarence A. Shoop, was a Vice-President of Hughes Aircraft at the time of his death in 1968. Col. Clarence Adelbert "Shoopy" Shoop was a reconnaissance pilot during World War II, flying the first photographic mission over Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day. In 1945 he was Base Commander at Muroc Army Field. Later on he was the head of flight testing for
Howard Hughes, as well as Commander-in-Chief of the Air National Guard of California until he died in 1968.