Early Life
Glen Rollin Hyde, born December 9, 1898 was a farmer from Twin Falls, Idaho; Bessie Louise Haley, born December 29, 1905, was a divorcee originally from Parkersburg, West Virginia. They met in 1927 on a passenger ship traveling to Los Angeles, California, and married April 12, 1928, the day after Bessie's divorce from her first husband was finalized.
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