Simplify the following text for a Grade 3 native English-speaking person.
Original: Clancy and his first wife Wanda married in 1969 , separated briefly in 1995 , and permanently separated in December 1996 . Wanda Clancy filed for divorce in November 1998 , which became final in 1999 .
Simplified: Clancy married his first wife , Wanda , in the 1970s .