Editing Ernie Pyle (section)

==Personal life==
Pyle met his future wife, Geraldine Elizabeth "Jerry" Siebolds (August 23, 1899 – November 23, 1945), a native of [[Minnesota]], at a [[Halloween]] party in Washington, D.C., in 1923.
They married in July 1925.<ref name=Brockman46-47>Brockman, pages 46–47.</ref><ref>Boomhower, ''The Soldier's Friend'', page 30. See also: {{cite book | author= Lee G. Miller | title =The Story of Ernie Pyle | publisher = Viking Press | year =1950 | location =New York | page =[https://archive.org/details/storyoferniepyle00mill/page/33 33] | isbn =9780837137438 | url =https://archive.org/details/storyoferniepyle00mill| url-access= registration}}</ref> In the early years of their marriage the couple traveled the country together. In Pyle's newspaper columns describing their trips, he often referred to her as "That Girl who rides with me".<ref name="Albright, p. 11">Albright, page 11.</ref> In June 1940, Pyle purchased property about {{convert|3|mi|km}} from downtown [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]], and had a modest, {{convert|1,145|ft2|m2|adj=on}} home built on the site. The residence served as the couple's home base in the United States for the remainder of their lives.<ref>Boomhower, ''The Soldier's Friend'', page 51.</ref>

Ernie and Jerry Pyle had a tempestuous relationship. He often complained of being ill, was a "heavy abuser of alcohol at times," and suffered from bouts of [[Mood disorder|depression]], later made worse from the stress of his work as a war correspondent during World War II. His wife suffered from alcoholism and periods of [[mental disorder|mental illness]] (depression or [[bipolar disorder]]).<ref>Boomhower, ''The Soldier's Friend'', page 50.</ref><ref>Miller (1950), pages and 169–73. See also: {{cite book|author=James Tobin |title=Ernie Pyles War: America's Eyewitness to World War II|date=1997|publisher=Free Press|pages=41–42, 49–51, 60–61, and 166|location=New York |isbn=9780684836423}}</ref> She also made several suicide attempts.<ref name=Brockman46-47/><ref>During one of Pyle's return visits to the United States during World War II, he wrote to his college roommate, Paige Cavanaugh: "Geraldine was drunk the afternoon I got home. From there she went on down. Went completely screwball. One night she tried the gas. Had to have a doctor." See: Miller (1950), pages 164. Pyle later described her as his "fearful and troubled wife ... desperate within herself since the day she was born."{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}</ref> Although the couple divorced on April 14, 1942, they remarried by [[proxy wedding|proxy]] in March 1943, while Pyle was covering the war in North Africa.<ref>Boomhower, ''The Soldier's Friend'', page 62.</ref><ref>Miller (1950), pages 63–64.</ref> They had no children.<ref name=McMurray/> Newspapers reported that Jerry Pyle "took the news [of her husband's death] bravely", but her health declined rapidly in the months following his death on April 18, 1945, while he was covering operations of American troops on [[Ie Shima]]. Jerry Pyle died from complications of [[influenza]] at [[Albuquerque]], New Mexico, on November 23, 1945.<ref>{{cite book |author=B. O'Connor |url=https://archive.org/details/soldiersvoicesto00ocon/page/76 |title=The Soldier's Voice: The Story of Ernie Pyle |publisher=Carolrhoda Books |year=1996 |isbn=0876149425 |page=[https://archive.org/details/soldiersvoicesto00ocon/page/76 76]}} See also:{{cite journal |date=November 24, 1945 |title=That Girl' of Ernie Pyle's Columns Dies |journal=The San Bernardino Daily Sun |location=San Bernardino, California |volume=52 |page=2}}</ref>