 From 1960 to 1968, Widener served as president of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.In 1917, he married divorcée Jessie (née Sloane) Dodge (1883-1968), daughter of Henry T. Sloane and Jessie Robbins of New York City, former wife of Willam Earl Dodge, and became stepfather to Diana Dodge.George D. Widener Jr. died in 1971 at his Erdenheim Farm, in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia.