Harriet Nelson (
July 18,
1909 –
October 2,
1994) was an American singer and actress.
Biography
She was born
Peggy Lou Snyder in
Des Moines, Iowa, to Roy Hilliard Snyder and Hazel Dell McNutt. By 1932, she was performing in
vaudeville when she met the saxophone-playing bandleader
Ozzie Nelson. Nelson hired her to sing with the band, under the name
Harriet Hilliard. They married three years later.