Margaret Louise “Polly” Grubb Ochs September 22, 1907 – November 17, 1963

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Margaret Louise Polly Grubb was the first wife of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. They were married in September 1932. She filed for divorce in Port Orchard, Washington, on April 14, 1947; divorce was finalized on December 24, 1947. Her father was Thomas Lloyd Grubb (1877 - 1950). Her...

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BIRTH 22 Sep 1907
Poolesville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
DEATH 17 Nov 1963 (aged 56)
Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL Cremated

Margaret Grubb - Wikipedia

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Margaret Louise "Polly" Grubb (September 22, 1907 – November 17, 1963)[2] was the first wife of pulp fiction author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, to whom she was married between 1933 and 1947. She was the mother of Hubbard's first son, L. Ron Hubbard Jr., and his first daughter, Katherine May "Kay" Hubbard.

In the spring of 1936 the Hubbards moved to Bremerton, Washington, to be near Hubbard's own family, the Waterburys. They settled in the community of South Colby, Washington, where Hubbard established a "writing studio" from where he produced many of his pulp short stories and novels. The marriage came under strain when Hubbard began spending increasingly long periods in New York in order to be nearer his publishers and fellow pulp writers. Grubb suspected that he was having affairs with other women in New York and confided her suspicions to family friends. According to Robert MacDonald Ford, a friend who later became a state representative, matters came to a head when she found hard evidence of her husband's philandering:

It seems Ron had written letters to a couple of girls in New York and left them in the mail box to be picked up. Polly found them and got so mad that she opened the envelopes, switched the letters and put them back in the box. She didn't tell him what she had done until they had been picked up.[10]

On August 10, 1946, Hubbard married Sara Hollister, with whom he had been living for about a year. Grubb filed for divorce in Port Orchard, Washington, on April 14, 1947, on the grounds of "desertion and non-support", since neither she nor her children were obtaining any support from her absent husband. She had no idea that he had already committed bigamy by being married to another woman, nor did Hollister know until then about Grubb. According to Hollister, "I did not discover that he was still married to her until after the divorce proceedings had begun."[12] Hubbard agreed to the divorce on June 1 and subsequently agreed to Grubb having custody of the children, costs, and $25 a month maintenance for each child. The divorce was final on December 24, 1947.[13] Hubbard later said that "it was I who obtained the divorce and have never really had an upset marital background" and that he got the divorce when "I was written to and advised by the judge that I should obtain one as he was tired of service wives deserting their husbands."[11]