Editing Goodwin Knight (section)

===Personal life===
Knight's first wife, Arvilla, died of a heart attack on October 29, 1952; the couple had two daughters. He married Virginia Carlson (born Virginia Piegrue on October 12, 1918, in [[Fort Dodge, Iowa|Fort Dodge]], [[Iowa]]), the widow of an Army lieutenant, on August 2, 1954, at the Episcopal Church of Our Savior in [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knight |first1=Virginia |last2=Stein |first2=Mimi Feingold |last3=Sharp |first3=Sarah |title=California's First Lady, 1954–1958 |date=1987 |publisher=Regents of the University of California |location=Berkeley |url=https://archive.org/details/califirstlady00knigrich}}</ref>  The couple had no children.