Career
She performed in his first American ballet, Serenade, in his Alma Mater, in two productions he choreographed for the Metropolitan Opera, and was featured in two Broadway musicals he choreographed, The Boys from Syracuse and Louisiana Purchase in which she understudied and appeared for Vera Zorina. Her sister Mardee was also a ballerina. Mission Vosseler married tap dancer Paul Draper on June 23, 1941, in Rio de Janeiro and lived with him in Europe until returning to the United States in 1954.
They had three daughters, Pamela, Susan and Kate.
She died of lung cancer at her home in Woodstock, New York, 74 years old. New York Times, March 13, 1992.
