William Jefferson Blythe III Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
William Jefferson Blythe III (February 27, 1918–May 17, 1946) was the father of U.S. President Bill Clinton, Sharon Lee Blythe, and Leon Ritzenthaler.
Born in Sherman, Texas, he married Adele Gash shortly before his eighteenth birthday, in December 1935. They had one son, Leon, who took the surname of his stepfather Charles Ritzenthaler after Gash and Blythe divorced.
Blythe married his first wife's sister, Faye Gash, in 1940. This marriage produced Sharon Lee Blythe, later Pettijohn.
His married for a third time on 3 September 1943, to Virginia Dell Cassidy. He served in the US Army during the Second World War, and was posted in Italy. After the war he worked as a traveling salesman, and his son William Jefferson Blythe IV was born in August 1946.
Three months before his son's birth, however, Blythe lost control of his Buick on U.S. Highway 60 outside of Sikeston, Missouri while traveling from Chicago to Hope, Arkansas. He drowned in 3 feet of water in a drainage ditch and died. Cassidy remarried to Roger Clinton in 1950, and Blythe IV took his stepfather's name.
He is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Hope, Arkansas, USA.
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