- The only child of J. Gordon Wilcox and Jessica Rosengrant. Her parents separated when she was three years old.
- [July 21, 1959] She and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller were co-christeners with Mamie Eisenhower of the world's first atomic merchant marine ship.
- Has three sons with Harry Conover.
- Moved to New York to become a model after winning the Miss Atlantic City 1941 pageant, in which famed model agent John Robert Powers was a judge. Powers suggested she would make a fine model and to drop in and see him sometime in New York. After working for Powers, she went on to model for another big rival modeling agency in New York owned by Harry Conover, who launched her career and made her famous.
- Modeled for Harry Conover for five years before she married him in 1946.
- [June 1946] Was proposed to by Harry Conover over long-distance phone when she was in Portland, Oregon.
- [February 1949] The Artists' League of America selected Candy Jones' chin as one of the "Ten Most Perfect Features in the World" belonging to outstanding women.
- [c. 1969] Her youngest son, Christian, died at age 16 as the result of an injury received while playing basketball.
- Married Long John Nebel in 1972 after a 28-day courtship in which the two never had an actual date.
- Won Miss Atlantic City Pageant in 1941 at age 16.
- Named Model of Year in 1943.
- Was model for stamp issued during World War II honoring women in Navy and Air Corps.
- Top Conover model who married her boss Harry Conover in 1946. She helped her husband run the Conover Model Agency, Conover Career Girl School, and Conover Television Agency.
- Separated from Harry Conover nine months prior to divorce.
- Harry Conover gave her the model name Candy Jones.
- Divorced Harry Conover in April 1959 in Mexico, but news of the divorce was announced publicly about a month later in May 1959 (according to her lawyer in the Victoria Advocate newspaper dated 05/28/1959).
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