Jeannette Catherine (Hyde) Eyerly (1908 - 2008)

Born 7 Jun 1908 in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States

Died 18 Aug 2008 at age 100 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States

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Biography

Jeannette (Hyde) Eyerly is Notable.

She was a young adult author. She served on the Board of the Iowa Commission for the Blind, thus her book Seeing Summer.

• Fact: Residence (1930) Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Residence (1935) Same Place, Polk, Iowa
• Fact: Residence (1940) Des Moines Township, Des Moines, Ward 1, Polk, Iowa
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch Jeannette was married 65 years to Frank Eyerly who at one time was managing Editor of The Des Moines Register and Tribune. She was a well know author of young adult novels. She continued to write almost until the end of her life.

Jeannette Eyerly (June 7, 1908 – August 18, 2008) was a writer of Young-adult fiction for girls and a columnist. She was a pioneer in dealing with controversial topics in novels for young people. Among the themes that appeared in her books were teenage pregnancy, alcohol abuse, and drug use. She penned eighteen novels,[1] starting with More Than a Summer Love in 1962, though she had published many short stories before that. Her 1977 novel, He's My Baby, Now was the basis for an ABC television movie.[2] She also wrote two books of verse.[1]

Born Jeannette Hyde in Topeka, Kansas to Robert Cornelius Hyde and Mabel Jeannette Young, she married Frank Eyerly in 1932. Eyerly earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Iowa in 1930. Her papers are archived at the University of Iowa.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMBZ-XK9 : 15 March 2018), Jeanette Eyerly in household of Frank R Eyerly, Ward 1, Des Moines, Des Moines Township, Polk, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 100-25, sheet 9A, line 29, family 196, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1193.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 25 April 2017, 19:34), entry for Jeannette C. Hyde(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LK66-G9V); contributed by various users.
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