Editing J. R. Simplot (section)

==Personal==
Simplot's first marriage was to Ruby Rosevear (1911–2004) of [[Glenns Ferry, Idaho|Glenns Ferry]],<ref name=xwrsdobt>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y8NeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uTEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4474%2C2744494 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |agency=Associated Press |title=Simplot's ex-wife Ruby Shipp dies |date=April 23, 2004 |page=7C}}</ref> whom he had met on a [[wiktionary:blind date|blind date]]; he proposed to her in his [[Ford Model A (1927–1931)|Model A]] [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] in 1931. After 29 years and four children, the marriage ended in divorce in 1960, when she suddenly left Simplot for another man. Years later, Simplot admitted that while he was growing his business empire in the 1950s, he had not spent enough time with his family.

He and his second wife, Esther Becker (born 1934), a former [[opera]] singer, met in the mid-1960s in [[New York City|New York]]. He was on a business trip and she was working as a receptionist for the [[Henry Phipps Jr.|Henry Phipps Foundation]]; they were married in 1972.<ref>{{cite news |title= Simplot: Farmboy who never went to high school turns potatoes into biggest fortune in Idaho |url= http://www.idahostatesman.com/simplot/story/391642.html |newspaper= [[Idaho Statesman]] |date= May 25, 2008 |access-date= 2008-05-30}}</ref>

Before his death, Simplot and his wife Esther resided in the Grove Hotel building in downtown Boise, a few blocks from the company's headquarters. The couple donated their hilltop home, in Boise's north end, to the state of [[Idaho]] in late 2004 for use as a governor's mansion.<ref name=hndovhs>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yIJfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mDAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3548%2C2213697 |work=Lewiston Tribune |last=Oxley |first=Chuck |agency=Associated Press |title=Simplot hands over house on the hill |date=December 22, 2004 |page=2C}}</ref> (Known as "[[State of Idaho Executive Residence|The Idaho House]]," it was returned to the Simplot family in 2013, and demolished in January 2016.)<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/2016/01/04/simplot-mansion-torn-down/78265350/ |title= Simplot Family Says Boise Mansion to Be Torn Down |publisher= [[KTVB]] |date= January 4, 2016 |access-date= January 4, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160107045939/http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/2016/01/04/simplot-mansion-torn-down/78265350/ |archive-date= 2016-01-07 |url-status= dead }}</ref>