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DATE: FRIDAY, February 18, 1994                   TAG: 9402180114
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short

ACTOR JAMES STEWART'S WIFE, GLORIA, DIES AT THEIR HOME

Stewart died Wednesday of lung cancer at her Beverly Hills home. James Stewart, to whom she was married for 44 years, their twin daughters and her son from a previous marriage were with her when she died.

She was active on the boards of various nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles and was a regular at charity dinners, dances and other events.

Born in Larchmont, N.Y., the daughter of a newsreel executive, the former Gloria Hatrick was educated at private schools and worked briefly as an actress and model. She drove an ambulance during World War II.

She married and later divorced Edward "Ned" McLean; the couple had two sons.

After moving to Los Angeles, she met Stewart, Hollywood's then favorite bachelor who had vowed he would remain single because "I could never marry just one and be disloyal to all the others."

He proposed on his 41st birthday, and they were married Aug. 9, 1949.