Talk:Mary Ford

message: My recollection is that there was a bitter divorce, with charges of infidelity on both sides.  However, last night (July 13 2007) on PBS, The Les Paul Story, he stated that they remained GOOD friends even after the div??? As well as they worked together, something went wrong!
:Les Paul's website (circa his death in 2009) called the divorce bitter.  Apparently, he overdubbed the older version of the story.Toddsschneider (talk) 02:20, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
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message: A search for "Melody Makers" turns up Ziggy Marley's page but not this one or Les's.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.718281828plus (talk • contribs) 18:13, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: ambig?

message: There is always more to such stories. Mary Ford was my aunt and very close to my father. The version he understood was that Les was a fanatic worker, frequently making Mary work through very late hours.  She finally started complaining about it and he did not like it.  They then lived in New Jersey where the divorce laws were not friendly to women and when she started what Les thought was too much drinking, he made the best of it. There was no doubt that they both drank alcoholic beverages, but Les used that factor as a reason for the divorce. (Back in those days someone had to be the person at fault under law.) And, as it turned out, he had arranged for her to sign some documents early on in the relationship giving him absolute control of their name. She finally left him and moved back to California where she and her brother, Bob Summers, made a number of great records in his studio.  They also toured around the country at various night clubs.  Bob's studio was called "Sound House Recordings." Mike Curb was one of the partners before he became the President of MGM Records.  Bob then became the music director for the "Mike Curb Congregation."  
Mary developed Type 1 diabetes which must be monitored closely. Drinking alcohol tends to upset the insulin balance.  She went into a diabetic coma one day and some think it was due her drinking. The problem is that Les was the only one to have claimed she drank too much and that was in the context of the divorce.  It may have been so, but taking too much insulin is the primary cause of diabetic coma and those comments are not provable claims.  This is especially true in light of her continued work and recording. She had remarried by then and if Les and she were close, it was known by few.  
My wife and I attended a Thanksgiving family dinner at Sound House in 1963 and Mary sang for us all. To this day I remember how fantastic she sounded, right off the cuff.  She was one of those people who was an absolute natural when it came to singing.  Although alcohol was being served, she did not imbibe.
Her death certificate says nothing about alcohol, rather it said the death was due to complications of diabetes. Someone with no knowledge of her drinking of lack of it added the drinking claim to several biographies and attributed her death to it. They should not have done that because they were not there, were not doctors, and it was not a certainty then nor is it now. The claims are not backed up by anyone who knew her and the last time I saw her she looked fantastic, not as you might assume an alcoholic would look. 
Gerald Lane Summers, J.D. 10/9/2017 (47.149.77.27 (talk) 23:51, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: THE FAMILY REMEMBERS MARY FORD.