Editing Bob Nolan (section)

==Early years==
Nolan was born April 13, 1908, in [[Winnipeg]], Manitoba, Canada<ref name="canoe">{{cite web|last=Williams |first=Rob |title=Guess Who duo in hall of fame |publisher=Canoe |url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/G/Guess_Who/2004/12/09/775440.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115060717/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/G/Guess_Who/2004/12/09/775440.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=January 15, 2013 |access-date=January 14, 2012}}</ref> to Harry Nobles and Flora Elizabeth Hussey Nobles. The couple separated in 1915, and Flora raised her two little boys in Winnipeg.<ref name="bobnolan1908">{{cite web|title=Bob Nolan: Early Life and Career (1908–1931) |publisher=Bob Nolan Web Site |url=http://www.bobnolan-sop.net/Biographies/Bob%20Nolan/Bob%20Nolan%20bio/Bob%201908-31.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130221091903/http://www.bobnolan-sop.net/Biographies/Bob%20Nolan/Bob%20Nolan%20bio/Bob%201908-31.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 21, 2013 |access-date=August 8, 2011}}</ref>

In the summer of 1916, Flora temporarily moved her children to her husband's parents' home in [[Hatfield Point, New Brunswick]], but due to the machinations of his father, Nolan never saw his mother again.<ref name="bobnolan1908"/>

In the summer of 1919, Nolan went to live with his aunt in [[Boston|Boston, Massachusetts]].<ref name="canadianencyclopedia">{{cite encyclopedia|last=King |first=Betty Nygaard |title=Robert Nolan |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/robert-nolan |access-date=January 8, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020013723/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/robert-nolan |archive-date=October 20, 2012 }}</ref> There he attended The Belmont School until 1921, when, at the age of thirteen, he moved to [[Tucson, Arizona]], to live with his father Harry, a United States Army officer.<ref name="canadianencyclopedia"/> He attended Safford Junior High School until 1922, then transferred to Roskruge Junior High. In high school he was an average student, was a member of the Arion Club choral group, and excelled in athletics. He graduated from [[Tucson High School]] in May 1928.<ref name="bobnolan1908"/>

On July 7, 1928, less than two months after he graduated high school, Nolan married his high school sweetheart, 16-year-old Tennie Pearl Fields. Thirteen months later, daughter Roberta Irene was born to them, but the marriage foundered almost from the beginning.<ref name="bobnolan1908"/>

After he left school, Nolan drifted around the country, finding work where he could and always writing songs. He took a lifeguard job in Los Angeles in 1929. His father had changed his name to Nolan and it was as Bob Nolan that he began a career as a singer on the [[Chautauqua]] tent-show circuit and as a lifeguard in Santa Monica.<ref name="bobnolan1908"/>