No son committed suicide. Jack, the oldest, died of leukemia in December of 2000, I believe. Gregory, the youngest and an ex-doctor, died in a women’s jail cell in Miami, Florida in October of 2001 (He had had a sex change operation a while before. That was why he was in the women’s jail cell). Patrick is still alive and living with his wife in Bozeman, Montana.
I realized that this was not clear. It was meant to convey the information that Gregory had been a doctor not that he (or I guess that should be “she” since he had had a sex change) was in the jail with an ex-doctor.
I have such a hard time saying what I mean sometimes.
And plnnr, a few obituaries listed Jack Hemingway’s death as a heart attack since his heart gave out while he was being operated on for a leukemia related complication, but most listed the cause of death as leukemia and it was his daughter that died of a drug overdose.