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forcibly removed to the State Hospital in Norwalk. According to My Sister Marilyn, Gladys's brother,
Marion, hung himself upon his release from an asylum, and Della's father did the same in a fit of
depression.
Norma Jeane was declared a ward of the state, and Gladys' best friend, Grace McKee (later Goddard)
became her guardian. After McKee married in 1935, Norma Jeane was sent to the Los Angeles
Orphans Home (later renamed Hollygrove), and then to a succession of foster homes.[15]
The Goddards were about to move to the east coast and could not take Monroe. Grace approached the
mother of a neighbor boy, James Dougherty, about the possibility of her son marrying the girl. They
married weeks after she turned 16, so that Norma Jeane would not have to return to an orphanage or
foster care.[15] Monroe stated in her autobiography that she did not feel like a wife; instead she
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