Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Helen Palmer, Theodor Geisel's first wife, died by suicide in 1967 after years of health problems. Geisel married Audrey Dimond ...

Henrietta “Nettie” Seuss Geisel, mother of children’s author and Springfield native “Dr. Suess,” loved her children and cherished the experience of watching them grow. That, said Kay Simpson, ...