'Shirley Has Quiet Life Enjoys The New Do-lt-yourself Craze'. They had a son, Charles Alden Black Jr., and two daughters, Susan and Lori Black. He died from myelodysplastic syndrome on August 4, 2005, at his home in Woodside, California, at the age of 86. He was married to the legendary former child actress and diplomat Shirley Temple from December 16, 1950, until his death. He later served as a consultant on maritime issues and served as a regent for Santa Clara University. He co-founded a hatchery for oysters and abalone and later created Mardela Corp., a fishery and hatchery company headquartered in Burlingame, California, which conducted ventures such as catfish and salmon farming. In the 1960s, Black gravitated to what would become the bulk of his life's work-aquaculture and oceanography. By the end of the Korean War, he was a lieutenant commander.Д«lack was an executive at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International) from 1952 to 1957 and with Ampex Corp from 1957 to 1965. Then in the late 1950s he lived in Hawaii, working as an executive for Castle & Cooke and Dole Pineapple companies. After World War II he received his MBA from Stanford in 1946. He again served during the Korean War as an intelligence officer. He served in the Navy during World War II as an intelligence officer in the South Pacific. After attending Harvard Business School for one year, Black entered the Navy in 1941. His father, James Byers Black, was president of PG&E. Black graduated from Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and Stanford University (class of 1940). They had a son, Charles Alden Black Jr., and two daughters, Susan (from Shirley's previous marriage) and Lori Black.Black was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1919.

Black was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1919.

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