Family:Herman Katt and Barbara Hale (1)

... married Barbara Hale, ..., in The Old Stone Church, Rockton, in 1946. ...

Barbara met her future husband Bill Williams in 1944 during the shooting of "West of the Pecos." Later she said that it was love at first sight. Bill Williams was born in Brooklyn on May 21, 1915, and was a dedicated athlete before he moved into Show Business. He began as a dancer in Vaudeville and, in 1944, signed a stock contract at RKO. Barbara and Bill married in 1946. One year later, on July 24, 1947, her first daughter Barbara Willa Johanna ('Jody') was born. The small family lived in Los Angeles and Barbara kept on working. On February 16, 1951 Barbara gave birth to son William Theodore. ( The family in the early 50s.) Their third child, Juanita Lauralee ('Nita') was born in Los Angeles on December 22, 1953 and made the family complete.

Another co-star was a blond actor named Bill Williams (real name: William Katt), with whom she appeared in "West of the Pecos" and "A Likely Story." They had met over coffee in the studio commissary and married in Rockford in 1946. The couple had three children: Nita, William and Jody. Williams, who died in 1992, later gained TV fame as star of "The Adventures of Kit Carson." Their son goes by his father's original name, William Katt.