 In an interview in 1940, she denied running against Garner.During her husband's tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1903 to 1933, Ettie Garner served as his private secretary.She suffered from Parkinson's disease from 1942 to 1948, slipped into a two-day coma and died in Uvalde, Texas on August 17, 1948, a month after her 79th birthday.