Ledora May Hubbard

Born in 1885 in Burnett, Antelope County, Nebraska to Lafayette O. Waterbury and Ida Corinne DeWolfe Waterbury.

Also known in some records as simply May Waterbury or May Hubbard.

Mother of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Husband was Harry Ross Hubbard (1886 - 1975). They married April 25, 1909, in Omaha, Nebraska.

She had a stroke in November 1959, she was admitted to the hospital and died after staying in a coma for a few days. She died in either November or December of 1959, last residence was Bremerton, Washington. Funeral was held in Helena, Montana.

Survived by son along with grandchildren: Ronald DeWolf, Catherine May Gillespie, Alexis Valerie Connolly, Arthur Ronald Conway Hubbard, Diana Meredith DeWolf Hubbard, Quentin McCaully Hubbard, and Mary Suzette Rochelle Hubbard White.

Sources:

Miller, Russell. Bare-faced Messiah. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1987.

Note:

Birth, death and funeral info per book, Bare-faced Messiah by Russell Miller, 1987. New York: Henry Holt and Company. pp. 8-9, 237-238.

Year of birth approximated as between 1888-1889, per 1920 United States federal census, with birth location as Burnett, Nebraska.

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