Death
Hyde died on November 29, 2007 at 3 a.m. CST at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago after suffering complications following open heart surgery at Provena Mercy Medical Center in Aurora, Illinois several months earlier. He was survived by his second wife, Judy Wolverton, whom he married a year before he died, and by his four children from his first marriage, to Jeanne Simpson Hyde, which lasted from 1947 until her death, in 1992. He is also survived by his four grandchildren. He was interred at Assumption Cemetery in Wheaton, Illinois.
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