Three of her five children with first husband William Snyder died in infancy; only her daughter Sarah Elizabeth Snyder (DOB: December 10, 1952) and a younger brother William Dana Snyder survived. Her daughter Sarah, committed suicide in New York City, just before Christmas 1973, after consuming liquor and barbiturates at 21. Her mother never accepted that her daughter died and spent her life looking for her. She had two other children with her second husband Sam Goodman; Kim Kemery Goodman and Michael Aaron Goodman.