Grammy Award winner Betty White was been married 3 times to Dick Barker, Lane Allen, and Allen Ludden. Betty White never had biological children of her own, the iconic actress enjoyed her role as a stepmother to three stepchildren. Betty White died on December 25, 2021, at age 99.

Betty White First Spouse Dick Barker

Betty White was married to Dick Barker, an American Air Forces aircraft pilot. After the war, the pair married in 1945. The couple relocated to Ohio, where they ran a poultry farm. Their marriage ended after a year due to personal reasons. White and Barker never had any children together.

Richard Barker was a World War II fighter pilot. According to Amo Mama, White met Barker while she was a member of the American Women’s Voluntary Service (AWVS).

According to The Record, White was a truck driver in the Hollywood Hills who transported supplies to soldiers stationed there. Her military duty, she told the source, “was a bizarre period and out of sync with everything.”

According to her biography, while with the AWVS, White would go to the rec rooms at night to dance and play games. She met Barker there, and they engaged in November 1942, before he went overseas to serve in the war.

White, who was 23 at the time, married Barker after World War II ended in 1945. When White and Barker married, they lived on Barker’s rural Ohio poultry farm, according to Mental Floss. According to the site, White returned to Los Angeles after four months to pursue an acting career. White, a well-known animal lover, told People magazine in 1999 that living on the poultry farm was a “horror.”

Their marriage began and ended in the same year, 1945, when they married on July 7 and divorced on December 18. In a 2010 interview with AARP, White explained why she married Barker in the first place.

She said,

“I would not have married my first [husband]. I married my first because we wanted to sleep together. It lasted six months, and we were in bed for six months. [The marriage with Barker] helped me to appreciate the real thing when it came along.”

Betty White Second Spouse Lane Allen

Two years after her divorce from Barker, White married Lane Allen. Lane Allen was born Albert Edward Wootten on August 4, 1914, in Toronto, Canada. Allen worked as a casting director, agent, and actor in Hollywood. Allen was an actor in several small appearances, most notably in the TV series “Police Story” in 1976.

He is particularly well-known for his casting efforts on the television show “Project U.F.O.” “During his lengthy career in the entertainment industry, he played in several parts while holding the job of Casting Director at Disney and MCA/Universal Studios,” according to Allen’s obituary.

White and Allen were married in 1947 but divorced two years later, in 1949. Allen, according to certain media accounts, wanted White to leave the entertainment profession to focus on raising a family, which White refused. After his divorce from White, Allen remarried twice. He died on August 5, 1995.

White and Allen were married in 1947 but divorced two years later, in 1949. According to certain media accounts, Allen wanted White to leave the entertainment profession to focus on raising a family, which White refused. After his divorce from White, Allen remarried twice. He died on August 5, 1995.

Betty White Third Spouse Allen Ludden

White married popular game show presenter Allen Ludden for the third time. When White appeared on Ludden’s show “Password,” the two became friends. They finally began dating and married in 1963. They were married until Ludden died of stomach cancer in 1981. White never married again.

She publicly expressed her feelings for Ludden following his death. She told Larry King in 2014 that she would never marry again because “When you’ve had the best, who needs the rest?”

White also expressed sorrow for her first two marriages, to Barker and Allen.  In a 2017 interview with Closer Weekly, White said,

“I wish I didn’t have two bad marriages. They were probably my fault. I just didn’t marry the right men. … I had lovely relationships, but not anything in the league of Allen.”

In an interview with Piers Morgan in 2012, White said,

“I had 18 wonderful years with Allen Ludden. … The first two were rehearsals.”

Does Betty White have Biological Children?

Betty White never had biological children of her own, the iconic actress enjoyed her role as a stepmother to three stepchildren. She was a mother to three stepchildren, David Ludden, Martha Ludden, and Sarah Ludden. Sandra Bullock told People in 2009 about a talk she had with White about being a stepmom. “Betty answered,

‘You know what? I never had children biologically. I married someone who had three children. And how blessed I was to have those three stepchildren.’”

Allen Ludden and his late wife Margaret McGloin had their first child, David Ludden. He was born in 1948 and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. According to Closer Weekly, he worked as a history professor at his alma institution and also taught history at New York University.

Martha Ludden was born in the year 1950. She was a teenager when her father married Betty White, and she’d recently lost her mother to cancer two years before. She was unhappy with the marriage, and her relationship with her father worsened as a result, according to Closer Weekly. Martha grew up to become a lawyer.

Sarah Ludden was born in the year 1952. She had a close relationship with her stepmother and attempted to act as a go-between for her stepmother and Martha. Sarah used to be a dancer before becoming a karate instructor. She and her companion, Nancy Lanoue, founded a small karate school.

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Faqs of Betty White

What was the cause of Betty White’s Death?

The official cause of death indicated on the Los Angeles County document obtained by CNN is a cerebrovascular accident, which is the medical name for a stroke, which occurs when blood flow to the brain is restricted, causing disability due to a lack of oxygen.

Why did not Betty White remarry?

White said she would never marry again because she’d already “had the best.”

Does Betty White have Children?

Betty White never had kids of her own.

Is Betty White still alive?

No, Betty White is not alive. She died on December 25, 2021, at age 99.

Is Betty White Canadian?

Her grandmothers were Canadians.