Editing Gavin MacLeod (section)

==Personal life==
While working as an usher and elevator operator at [[Radio City Music Hall]], MacLeod met dancer Joan F. Rootvik, who was a Rockette.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Flaherty |first=Mike |date=2021-05-29 |title=Gavin MacLeod, 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Love Boat' Actor, Dies at 90 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/arts/television/gavin-macleod-dead.html |access-date=2022-09-18 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> They married in 1955 and had two sons and two daughters before divorcing in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gavin MacLeod of 'Love Boat' and 'Mary Tyler Moore' fame dead at 90 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/gavin-macleod-love-boat-mary-tyler-moore-fame-dead-90-n1269101 |access-date=2022-09-18 |website=NBC News |date=May 29, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1974, he married Patti Kendig.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patti MacLeod |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824632/ |access-date=2022-09-18 |website=IMDb}}</ref> The couple divorced in 1982 and remarried in 1985. During the mid-1980s, they became [[Christian fundamentalism|evangelical Christians]]<!--The former-used descriptive 'Protestant' is considered an insult to many--> and credited their faith for bringing them back together.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3812747.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611004331/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3812747.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=June 11, 2014| title='Chapter Two' ends happily for MacLeods| newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times| date=February 27, 1987| access-date=August 31, 2018| last=Tucker| first=Ernest | via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref>

On September 20, 2009, MacLeod discussed his conversion to [[evangelicalism]] at The Rock Church in [[Anaheim, California]], and was a guest speaker there in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stonethepreacher.com/the-one-minute-gospel-gavin-maccleod-from-the-love-boat/|title=The One Minute Gospel: Gavin McLeod (From the Love Boat!)|last=Sanchez|first=Steve|date=June 4, 2012|website=Stonethepreacher.com|access-date=March 31, 2019}}</ref>

===Death===
MacLeod died at his home in [[Palm Desert, California]], on May 29, 2021, aged 90.<ref name="apnews.com"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/05/gavin-macleod-dead-love-boat-captain-mary-tyler-moore-colleague-obituary-1234766493/|title=Gavin MacLeod Dies: 'Love Boat' Captain And 'Mary Tyler Moore' Colleague Was 90|first=Bruce|last=Haring|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=May 29, 2021|access-date=May 29, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/gavin-macleod-love-boat-captain-dies-at-90 | title=Gavin MacLeod, 'Love Boat' captain, dies at 90 | work=Fox News | date=May 29, 2021 | accessdate=May 30, 2021}}</ref> He is interred at [[Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City)|Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City]].