Jack Hyles

Jack Frasure Hyles was born and raised in Italy, Texas, a poor town south of Dallas. When he was 18 years old, he enlisted in the United States Army and served as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. He married his wife Beverly during the war. After World War II, Hyles completed his college education at East Texas Baptist College in Marshall, TX. After graduating, he preached at several small Texas churches, then pastored at …