Editing Chuck Yeager (section)

== Early life and education ==
Yeager was born February 13, 1923, in [[Myra, West Virginia]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Is Dead at 97|access-date=December 8, 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/chuck-yeager-dead.html|last1=Goldstein|first1=Richard|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 7, 2020}}</ref> to farming parents Albert Hal Yeager (1896–1963) and Susie Mae Yeager ({{nee|Sizemore}}; 1898–1987).<ref>{{cite book|first=Ken|last=Sullivan|publisher=West Virginia Humanities Council|year=2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g0cUAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Albert+Hal+and+Susie+Mae+Sizemore+Yeager%22|title=The West Virginia Encyclopedia|isbn=978-0-9778498-0-2|access-date=October 15, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181015192316/https://books.google.ca/books?id=g0cUAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Albert+Hal+and+Susie+Mae+Sizemore+Yeager%22&dq=%22Albert+Hal+and+Susie+Mae+Sizemore+Yeager%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqn92PqIjeAhWBl-AKHeqmAcsQ6AEIFjAA|archive-date=October 15, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> When he was five years old, his family moved to [[Hamlin, West Virginia]]. Yeager had two brothers, Roy and Hal Jr., and two sisters, Doris Ann (accidentally killed at age two by four-year-old Roy playing with a firearm)<ref>{{cite news|title=Four-Year-Old Boy Kills Baby Sister with Gun|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65128536/doris-ann-yeager-1929-1930/|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=December 23, 1930|location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|page=2|access-date=December 12, 2020|via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}}}}</ref><ref name="yeagerEsquire">{{cite web|url=https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/interviews/a5431/chuck-yeager-quotes-0109/|publisher=Esquire Magazine|title=Chuck Yeager: What I've Learned|date=December 25, 2008|access-date=May 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713070721/http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/chuck-yeager-quotes-0109|archive-date=July 13, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="yeagerbio_6">{{cite book |last1=Yeager|first1=Chuck|first2=Leo|last2=Janos|name-list-style=amp|title=Yeager: An Autobiography|url=https://archive.org/details/yeagerautobiogra00yeag|url-access=registration|location=New York
|publisher=Bantam Books|year=1985|isbn=978-0-553-25674-1|page=https://archive.org/details/yeagerautobiogra00yeag/page/6 6}}</ref> and Pansy Lee.

He attended Hamlin High School, where he played [[basketball]] and [[American football|football]], receiving his best grades in [[geometry]] and [[typing]]. He graduated from high school in June 1941.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chuckyeager.com/1923-1941-growing-up|title=Chuck Yeager's Humble Beginnings|website=chuckyeager.com|access-date=May 6, 2020|archive-date=June 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615164729/http://www.chuckyeager.com/1923-1941-growing-up|url-status=dead}}</ref>

His first experience with the military was as a teen at the [[Citizens Military Training Camp]] at [[Fort Benjamin Harrison]], [[Indianapolis]], Indiana, during the summers of 1939 and 1940. On February 26, 1945, Yeager married Glennis Dickhouse. The couple had four children. Glennis Yeager died in 1990, predeceasing her husband by 30 years.<ref name="Dickhouse">{{cite magazine|last=Houvouras|first=John H. |url=http://www.chuckyeager.com/HuntingtonQuarterly.pdf|title=The Man|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923203135/http://www.chuckyeager.com/HuntingtonQuarterly.pdf|archive-date=September 23, 2015 |magazine=The Huntington Quarterly|date=Winter 1998|page=21|access-date=April 14, 2015}}</ref>

His cousin, [[Steve Yeager]], was a [[professional baseball]] [[catcher]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kantowski|first1=Ron|title=Q+A Steve Yeager|url=http://lasvegassun.com/news/2006/apr/06/qa-steve-yeager/|access-date=February 26, 2016|newspaper=Las Vegas Sun|date=April 6, 2006|quote=He's not my uncle, he's a cousin. That's a misprint. You can't believe everything you read.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308015218/http://lasvegassun.com/news/2006/apr/06/qa-steve-yeager/|archive-date= March 8, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>{{refn|Chuck Yeager is not related to [[Jeana Yeager]], one of the two pilots of the [[Rutan Voyager]] aircraft, which circled the world without landing or refueling.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jeana Yeager Was Not Just Along for the Ride |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-12-24-mn-236-story.html|access-date=February 26, 2016|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=December 24, 1986|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304231049/http://articles.latimes.com/1986-12-24/news/mn-236_1_jeana-yeager|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>|group=lower-alpha}}