Joseph T. Ainley and Gerson were wed in 1936 at Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church. He was the Leo Burnett Company, Inc.’s radio director at the time.
They stayed together till his passing in 1965. The couple had no children.
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Although Gerson retired in 1966, she continued to use her voice while working at Louis R. “Lou” Lauria’s telephone answering business. Gerson and Lauria were married from 1966 until his death in 1994. Both of those unions were childless.
In 1996, she received the Disney Legends honor. In 1997, she made one final cinematic appearance, lending her voice to Frances in Cats Don’t Dance.
Gerson was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 20, 1914, but raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where her father was an executive at a steel business.
She was Jewish.
Private schools in Birmingham and Miami, Florida provided her with an education. She and her family relocated to Chicago when she was 16 years old, where she appeared in the radio drama The First Nighter Show. Then, she relocated to New York City.
