A good student , Vinson studied at Radcliffe College while pursuing an interest in ice skating . She married Canadian skater Guy Owen and they had two daughters , Maribel Yerxa Owen ( 1940 ) and Laurence Rochon Owen ( 1944 ) . They divorced in 1949 , and Guy Owen died three years later at age 38 . Following her father 's death , also in 1952 , she and her daughters moved back east to Winchester and lived with her mother . In February 1961 , Maribel Vinson-Owen was killed along with both daughters in the Sabena Flight 548 crash in Belgium
Sabena Flight 548
Sabena Flight 548
Maribel Vinson