History
The McGuire sisters were born in Middletown, Ohio and grew up in Miamisburg. Their mother, Lillie, was an ordained minister of the Miamisburg First Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), where, as young girls, they sang in the church at weddings, funerals and church revivals. When they started singing in 1935, the youngest sister, Phyllis, was four years old. Eventually, they sang at occasions outside church and, by 1949, were singing at military bases and veterans' hospitals. They incorporated a more diverse repertoire for those events. Christine had two children, Herold and Asa; Dorothy had two, Rex and David. Phyllis has no children.
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