she and Marie Severin were the first women to be so inducted. Personal life Messick was married twice. With first husband, Everette George Soltmann, she had one child, a daughter named Starr. Messick later married attorney Oscar Strom. Both marriages ended in divorce. Following her retirement from Brenda Starr, Reporter, Messick moved to Oakmont, California, to be near her daughter and grandchildren. She continued to work, creating a strip, Granny Glamour, which ran in Oakmont Gardens Magazine, a local weekly magazine. It ended after she had a stroke in 1998 and could not draw any more. At the end she was being cared for by her daughter in Penngrove, Sonoma County, California. Messick died on April 5, 2005, in Sonoma County, California. References External links 1906 births 2005 deaths Artists from Indiana American female comics artists American comic strip cartoonists American women illustrators American illustrators Chicago Tribune people Pseudonymous writers People from South Bend, Indiana Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame inductees People from Hobart, Indiana 20th-century American women artists 20th-century American people 21st-century American women