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Marriage and family

At age 20, Guthrie met and married his first wife, Oklahoma-born Mary Jennings (1917-2014), in Texas in 1931. They had three children together: Gwendolyn, Sue, and Bill. Bill died at the age of 23 as the result of an automobile accident. The daughters both died of Huntington's disease at the age of 41, in the 1970s. Evidently the disease had been passed on from their father, although Guthrie himself was diagnosed with the condition later in life, in 1952, when he was 43 years old. Guthrie and Mary divorced in 1940. Mary Esther Jennings Guthrie Bailey Boyle remarried, had another child, and died at the age of 97 in California.

Guthrie married twice more, to Marjorie Greenblatt (1945–1953), and Anneke Van Kirk (1953–1956), having a total of eight children.