There are stories that he later owned a dairy in Hemet, CA, and once when Marilyn attempted to telephone him, he hung up on her.
Mental illness (ie: manic depression / schizophrenia) was rampant in Gladys's family and when Norma Jeane was briefly living with her mother at age 7, Gladys had a nervous breakdown. Norma Jeane became a ward of the state and her mother's friend Grace McKee-Goddard became Norma Jeane's legal guardian.
Aunt Grace became financially strapped and needed to send the 9-year-old child to the LA Orphans Home (now Hollygrove with a new main building).