Jackson married John Marshall Robinson Jr. in 1924 ; they had a daughter , Joan Fay Robinson , in 1926 , and divorced before 1940 . In the 1950s she became a devout Roman Catholic . In 1962 she founded the Our Lady of Africa Guild , to raise funds for missionary work . Fay M. Jackson died in 1979 , aged 77 years , soon after learning that her daughter had died in a plane crash . In 2000 , a collection of her clippings , photographs , and other papers was displayed at the University of Southern California
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American Airlines Flight 191
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