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Pearson married actor, musician, and songwriter Gerald Neils Pearson (1942–1984), whom she had met in a college production of "The Skin of Our Teeth", on September 9, 1966 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The two were devout Latter Day Saints who both descended from several generations of Latter-day Saints. They were married for 12 years and had four children together, settling in Provo, Utah.