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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
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.
Sep 19, 2018 · 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 her mother was 42, she took her...
- Gillian Telling
- 3 min
On April 14, a few days after her 42nd birthday, she committed suicide by cutting her throat with the help of a razor blade. Soon before she committed suicide, she wrote six notes to different individuals but none to her husband, Henry.
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. Having been in and out of mental ...
- Luchina Fisher
- 8 min
Oct 20, 2018 · The now-80-year-old icon lost her mother Frances Ford Seymour to suicide when she was just 12-years-old, and the events that lead up to the heartbreaking moment will forever be one of...
Sep 18, 2022 · Shortly after meeting famed actor Henry Fonda on the set of his 1937 movie, "Wings of the Morning" (via Country Living), he and Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Seymour wed and had two ...
