 Known to her friends as "Gertie," she was married firstly to Frederick G. Peabody, a successful men's clothing manufacturer.Together, they adopted a girl named Joan (later known as Joan Peabody Loudon), who was the natural daughter of Edward C. Johnson and Alice Brandt.The couple divorced in 1924, and in November of that year, she remarried to Peter Arrell Browne Widener II, a prominent Philadelphian.