Editing Walter Jenkins (section)

==Personal life==
Jenkins was born in [[Jolly, Texas]], and spent his childhood in [[Wichita Falls, Texas]]. There he attended [[Midwestern State University]] and then spent two years at the [[University of Texas]], though he did not earn a degree.<ref name=storm>''New York Times'': [https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/16/archives/man-in-the-news-storm-center-in-capital.html "Storm Center in Capital," October 16, 1964]. Retrieved November 13, 2010</ref> In 1945, following his discharge from the Army, he converted to Roman Catholicism and married Helen Marjorie Whitehill.<ref name=storm/>

Jenkins and his wife had six children, four boys and two girls.<ref name=storm/> They [[Legal separation|separated]] in the early 1970s but never divorced.