Marriage and Issue
He was married three times, first in Washington, D.C., on December 24, 1945 to Doris Carlquist, whom he divorced in 1977. They had three children: daughter Lisa Halaby, who would ultimately become Queen Consort of Jordan; son Christian, now a composer and guitarist; and daughter Alexa, a University of Pennsylvania squash champion who was a bridesmaid at the 1986 wedding of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
He was married to the former Jane Allison Coates from 1980 until her death in 1996. From 1997 until his death in 2003 at age 87, he was married to the former Libby Anderson Cater.
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