Editing Knute Rockne (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church (Sandusky, Ohio) - view from the loft.JPG|thumb|Interior of Saints Peter and Paul Church (Sandusky, Ohio)]]

Rockne met Bonnie Gwendoline Skiles (1891–1956) of [[Kenton, Ohio]], an avid gardener, while the two were employed at [[Cedar Point]]. Bonnie was the daughter of George Skiles and Huldah Dry. The two married at [[Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church (Sandusky, Ohio)|Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church]] in [[Sandusky, Ohio]], on July 14, 1914, with Father William F. Murphy officiating and Gus Dorais as [[best man]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geni.com/people/Bonnie-Skiles/6000000007635997425|title=Bonnie Gwendolyn Skiles|work=geni_family_tree|date=December 18, 1891 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saints_Peter_and_Paul_Roman_Catholic_Church_(Sandusky,_Ohio)_-_Erie_Co._Historical_Marker,_Knute_Rockne_Wedding.JPG|title=File:Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church (Sandusky, Ohio) - Erie Co. Historical Marker, Knute Rockne Wedding.JPG|date=April 29, 2016}}</ref> They had four children: Knute Lars Jr., William Dorias, Mary Jeane and John Vincent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/aroundthebend/knute_rockne/|title=Around the Bend: Knute Rockne|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=May 6, 2015|archive-date=January 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090121030445/http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/aroundthebend/knute_rockne/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Rockne converted from [[Lutheranism]] to the [[Catholic Church]] on November 20, 1925. The Rev. Vincent Mooney, C.S.C., baptized Rockne in the Log Chapel on Notre Dame's campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tomandkatehickeyfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2013/11/88-years-ago-today-tom-hickey-became_20.html|title=Tom and Kate Hickey Family History: 20 Nov. 1925: Tom Hickey Became Knute Rockne's Godfather|work=tomandkatehickeyfamilyhistory.blogspot.com}}</ref>

In 1986 a grandson, Paul Michael Rockne, was killed in the [[Edmond post office shooting]], the deadliest [[workplace shooting]] in U.S. history and the deadliest shooting by a lone gunman in the state of Oklahoma.