A shekara ta 1973, iyayenta sun nemi rabuwa kuma an sake su a shekara mai zuwa. Ba da daɗewa ba, mahaifiyar Ellen ta auri Royess Gruendorf, wani mai sayarwa. Betty Jane da Ellen Gruendorf sun koma tare da mahaifinsa daga yankin New Orleans zuwa Atlanta, Texas. Vance ya zauna tare da mahaifinsa. A cikin watan Fabrairun 2011 na nuna ta Gene, ta gaya wa ɗakin karatun ta game da wasiƙar daga New England Historical Society wanda ya tabbatar da aikinta na 15th zuwa Cambridge, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, Thomas Thomas (c.1925<unk>2018), wani wakilin inshora. Tana da ɗan'uwa, Vance, mawaƙa da mai samarwa.
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