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==Personal life== [[File:Doc Severinsen and daughter Nancy 1974.JPG|thumb|180px|Severinsen with daughter Nancy, in 1974. Nancy was part of a vocal group called Today's Children, which often performed with him.]] On June 23, 1949, Severinsen married Jane Simpson Frazer. They had four children before divorcing. On August 7, 1964, Severinsen married Evonne Nyman. They had one child and were divorced in 1976. In 1980, he married Emily Marshall, who was a television writer and producer and is an on-camera subject in a 2020 PBS documentary produced by [[American Masters]] titled ''Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story'' that premiered April 2, 2021.<ref name="NYT-Doc 2021">{{cite web |title=Doc Severinsen Recalls High Notes, Low Notes and Everything in Between |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/arts/television/doc-severinsen-pbs.html |date=March 28, 2021 |access-date=2021-04-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode|title=Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/stream-never-too-late-doc-severinsen-story-documentary/17495/|series=[[American Masters]]|orig-date=April 2, 2021|season=35|number=4|access-date=April 3, 2021}}</ref> They met when she was working as a secretary for ''The Tonight Show'' producer [[Fred de Cordova]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Sheff|first=Vicki|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20119094,00.html|title=Doc Severinsen Finds His Key, and It's Writer Emily Marshall| website=People.com| date=1988-12-19| access-date=2011-10-26}}</ref> In 1992, after The Tonight Show, Severinsen moved to Mexico with his wife, and formed a new band, The San Miguel Five. They divorced in 2006. Marshall died in 2023. By 2013, Severinsen was living in Tennessee for a few years, moving to Tennessee to be closer to Cathy Leach, principal trumpeter with the [[Knoxville Symphony Orchestra]] and professor of trumpet at the University of Tennessee.<ref name="shns/severinsen-85">{{cite news |last1=Bledsoe |first1=Wayne |title=At 85, Doc Severinsen still a young man with a horn |url=https://www.eastvalleytribune.com/get_out/performance/at-85-doc-severinsen-still-a-young-man-with-a-horn/article_6059d38a-b157-11e2-af01-001a4bcf887a.html |access-date=14 February 2025 |work=[[East Valley Tribune]] |agency=[[Scripps Howard News Service]] |date=30 April 2013 |language=en}}</ref> {{as of|2021}} Severinsen's "companion"<ref name="NYT-Doc 2021" /> was trumpet player Cathy Leach,<ref>{{cite web |title=Bio |url=https://cathyleachtrumpet.com/bio/ |website=Cathy Leach, trumpet |access-date=14 February 2025}}</ref> a [[professor emerita]] of trumpet at the [[University of Tennessee]]. In 2022, Leach was cited as his wife.<ref>{{cite web |title=Legendary Tonight Show Band Leader, Trumpeter Doc Severinsen Featured at Gardner-Webb |url=https://gardner-webb.edu/news/legendary-doc-severinsen-featured-on-gwu-campus/ |website=Gardner-Webb University |access-date=14 February 2025}}</ref> Severinsen and Leach perform together.<ref>{{cite web |title=Events |url=https://cathyleachtrumpet.com/events/ |website=Cathy Leach, trumpet |access-date=14 February 2025}}</ref> Severinsen has been quoted as saying that he has been married four times.<ref>{{cite web |last=Turner |first=Brett |title=News |website=Doc Severinsen |date=2011-01-10 |url=https://www.docseverinsen.com/news/ |access-date=2021-04-03}}</ref> Severinsen's children are Nancy, Cindy, Allen, Robin, and Judy. He has eight grandchildren, including Blaire and Gray Reinhard, who write and perform roots rock music together in various incarnations as Curtis & Reinhard and the [[Blaire Reinhard Band]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.docseverinsen.com/news/|title=Doc Severinsen|website=Doc Severinsen|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-17}}</ref>
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