Library and Museum board and served on many corporate boards, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the country's two largest mortgage lenders. Personal life Ashley was twice married. He married Margaret Mary Sherman in 1956 but they separated shortly thereafter. He married Kathleen Lucey in 1967 at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in Trenton, New Jersey. Kathleen, the daughter of Charley Lucey (editor of The Times Newspapers in Trenton), was a graduate of Trinity College and Georgetown Law School and the Washington editor for the United States Savings and Loan League. They had three children: Lise Ashley, who married Steven Francis Xavier Murphy, a son of Major General Dennis J. Murphy. William Meredith Ashley, who married Monica Ann Manginello in 2008. Mark Michael Ashley Kathleen Ashley died of heart failure at George Washington University Hospital in 1997. Lud Ashley lived in Leland, Michigan, until his death from melanoma at his home on June 15, 2010. After his death, George H. W. Bush said in a statement that he and Barbara Bush "mourn the loss of a very close friend" and said Ashley "might well have been my very best friend in life." References External links 1923 births 2010 deaths United States Army soldiers United States Army personnel of World War II Yale University alumni Ohio State University Moritz College of Law alumni University of Toledo alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio Kent School alumni Politicians from Toledo, Ohio People from Leland, Michigan 20th-century American politicians Maumee Valley Country Day School alumni Military personnel from Ohio