Surely, there's nothing odd about these two sentences, talking about Alexis Gilliland:
(I can, of course, make a reasonable assumption about how to re-write this, but without ZOMG SOURCES TO CITE, I'm going to hold off.)
He and his first wife, Dolly (died 1991) hosted meetings of the Washington Science Fiction Association in his home approximately once a month from November 1967 until July 2006. In 1993 he married Lee Uba (née Elisabeth Swanson).
(I can, of course, make a reasonable assumption about how to re-write this, but without ZOMG SOURCES TO CITE, I'm going to hold off.)