How 3 Middletown sisters grew from humble beginnings to become one of the country’s favorite music acts

Feb. 13—Instead of being recognized as the McGuire Sisters — one of the most popular female groups in the 1950s and '60s that produced 30 hit records — they could have been just Christine, Phyllis and Dorothy McGuire, three sisters from Middletown. But their mother, Lillie McGuire, was a preacher at First Church of God in Miamisburg, so her daughters frequently performed as a group there. When …