(27 October 1934 - 13 October 1973) (her death)
In 1934, he married his grammar school sweetheart, Ruth Puckett. Their wedding took place in her parents' home in Hartselle, and Huie later immortalized the scene in his largely autobiographical first novel, Mud on the Stars (1942).
Huie and his wife moved their permanent residence back to native Hartselle in the late 1950s. Ruth became a first grade schoolteacher, and he continued to write full-time at home as freelance journalist and novelist, traveling only periodically on work-related matters.
Ruth, Huie's wife of almost 40 years, died of cancer in 1973.