Betty Jean Hallas in the 1940 Census

This snapshot of Betty Jean Hallas's life was captured by the 1940 U.S. Census.
When Betty Jean Hallas was born about 1936, her father, Bert, was 20, and her mother, Gerldine, was 16. In 1940, she was 4 years old and lived in Nodaway, Iowa, with her father, mother, sibling, and grandmother.