the year after johnniebo died in 1972, kenojuak remarried, to etyguyakjua pee; he died in 1977. in 1978 she married joanassie igiu. she had 11 children by her first husband and adopted five more; seven of her children died in childhood. at the time of her death from lung cancer, she was living in a wood-frame house in kinngait (cape dorset).