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  1. Seymour died by suicide while she was a patient at the Craig house in Beacon, New York. Her suicide came three and a half months after Fonda asked her for a divorce. She is buried in Ogdensburg Cemetery, Ogdensburg, New York. References

  2. Fonda's mother, Frances Ford Seymour, was a Canadian-born socialite when she married actor Henry Fonda. They later had Jane and her brother Peter Fonda. Having been in and out of mental institutions, Fonda's mother killed herself at age 42 while institutionalized.

  3. Sep 19, 2018 · Fonda's mother, Frances Ford Seymour, was a Canadian-born socialite when she married actor Henry Fonda. They later had Jane and her brother Peter Fonda.

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  4. Sep 19, 2018 · At the age of 42, Frances committed suicide while residing at a mental institution. However, Henry chose to tell his children their mother died of a heart attack.

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  5. Sep 19, 2018 · Genevieve Naylor/Corbis/Getty. Frances Ford Seymour, a Canadian-born socialite, was married to Henry Fonda in 1936 and they had two children: Jane and Peter. In 1950, when Jane was 12 and...

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  7. Aug 17, 2015 · Jane says she later found out that Frances had retrieved a razor from the home and slit her own throat in the mental institution on her 42nd birthday. Though Frances committed suicide, Jane was told that she'd died of a heart attack. Jane soon learned the truth from a magazine.

  8. Sep 18, 2022 · However, despite Jane's powerful lineage, many may not know the tragic story of the life and death of her mother, Frances Ford Seymour. Frances Ford Seymour took her own life at age 42 Instagram

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