Editing Ruby Keeler (section)

==Personal life==
Keeler and Jolson adopted a son, but later divorced in 1940. In 1941, she married John Homer Lowe, a businessman, and left show business the same year.  (She returned for very, very occasional TV guest appearances beginning in the mid-1950s and a very few small cameo film roles starting in 1970; she also returned to Broadway in 1970.)  Keeler and Lowe had four children. Lowe died in 1969.{{Citation needed |date=September 2024}} 

Keeler had two nephews who also worked in the film business. [[Joey D. Vieira]], also known as Donald Keeler, is best remembered for portraying Sylvester "Porky" Brockway on TV's ''[[Lassie (1954 TV series)|Lassie]]'' (retitled ''Jeff's Collie'' in syndicated reruns and on DVD) from 1954 to 1957.<ref name="Lamparski">{{cite book| title=Whatever Became Of ...? Eighth Series| last=Lamparski| first=Richard| year=1982| publisher=Crown Publishers| location=New York| isbn=0-517-54855-0| pages=[https://archive.org/details/whateverbecameof0000lamp/page/230 230–1]| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/whateverbecameof0000lamp/page/230}}</ref> Vieira's brother, [[Ken Weatherwax]], played [[Pugsley Addams]] on the 1960s TV series ''[[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|The Addams Family]]''.<ref name="Lamparski"/> Ruby's son John Lowe had a career as a Broadway stage manager for a number of productions beginning with ''No, No, Nanette'' in 1970.<ref>{{cite web| website=[[Internet Broadway Database]]| title=No, No, Nanette (1971)| access-date=January 23, 2016| url=http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/3580}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=The Making of "No, No, Nanette"| first=Donald| last=Dunn| publisher=[[Citadel Press]]| year=1972| isbn=978-0806502656}}</ref>

Keeler was a Catholic.<ref>Morning News, January 10, 1948, ''Who Was Who in America'' (Vol. 2)</ref> She was also a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] who supported [[Dwight Eisenhower]]'s campaign during the [[1952 United States presidential election|1952 presidential election]].<ref>''Motion Picture and Television Magazine'', November 1952, page 34, Ideal Publishers</ref>

===Death===
Keeler died of kidney cancer on February 28, 1993, in [[Rancho Mirage, California]], aged 83.<ref name=NYTobit/>