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In Oak Park, IL
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At 15 Kroc trained to become an ambulance driver during WWI and made friends with Walt Disney who was also getting trained.
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Ray was originally married to Ethel Fleming in 1922
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Ray Kroc founds "McDonald's Systems, Inc.", as a legal structure for his planned franchises.
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Kroc opens the ninth McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois, in suburban Chicago on April 15.
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1957, Kroc met Joan ("Joni") Smith. Kroc proposed that Smith and he get divorces so that they could marry each other. Joni was planning to at first and changed her mind.
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Years after being married to Ethel Fleming and having a his daughter Marilyn Kroc, he broke it off with Ethel in 1961.
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Married Jane Dobbins Green in 1962, divorced 1969
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Third wedding: Married Joni Smith in 1969 and remained married to her until his death
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He lived to be 81.
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McDonald's net worth is $92.5 billion
