Family
Elliott and his wife Barbara met while he was with the Marine Corps at Purdue and she was studying pre-school education there. They married in 1949, and have three children, Bill (born October 1951), Bob (born May 1953), and Betsy (born c. 1955). Son Bob Elliott was Iowa's defensive coordinator under Hayden Fry in the 1990s.
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“A family in harmony will prosper in everything.”
—Chinese proverb.
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