Boy! Time sure flies when you're having fun. It seems like just yesterday that I was posting part #12 of Mom's story and here another week is already gone.
Our granddaughter, Lacie, is up from Dallas for the week so I imagine she and Bill will be doing a lot of horseback riding. I'm sure I'll do some, but it usually takes me a few days to recover between rides, so if I do 2 I'll be doing good. They've already made one while I was a church tonight. (little heathens!) They did have supper on the table when I got home though, so that was good!
So, here's the next part of Mom's story. Hope you enjoy the read.
After Joan and Donna could drive, we went to my parents 50th anniversary and Stanley’s wedding in Humbird in 1965.
Joan’s wedding was in 1967 and Donna’s in 1969. Both took place while I was working at the school. We got the flowers at the Kewaskum florist, and had the receptions at Nonn’s at Forest Lake. Dinners were $1.25 a plate. The Julida Boys played for Donna’s wedding.
Les’s cousin’s son, Danny Howard, who lived in Arlington, VA, started coming to the farm every summer to help with the yard work and garden and picking cherries, and other chores. He started coming when he was 11 and came every year until he was 16 when he could get work in Virginia.
Donna drove me to Dick and Kathy Adler’s wedding in Illinois. When Donna worked in West Bend factory, she and I flew to Seattle Washington to visit Joan and Bill Mertz for a week in 1969. The three of us went to Victoria, British Columbia on a big ship for a day trip. Joan and Bill took us all over. Joan took us over a mountain and I was afraid, but Joan drove all over the most. Bill was in the service. On Sunday he drove to Mt. Rainier Park. It was great and we went to Snoquomish Falls to see that. We also went west to the Pacific Ocean and walked on the beach. This was the first time we had Kentucky fried chicken in a box. It was so good. We ate outside.
On Nov. 29, 1969 Donna married Willard Peterson in the Fillmore church. They went to Florida on their honeymoon and bought nice sea shell gifts and cuckoo clock for Christmas gifts. They settled in Plymouth and had Greg in October 1970. Then the moved to Waubeka in 1971 and bought a house on Tagay-Tay Terrace. In August of 1972 they had Connie. Lots of good visits there with all of them.
They celebrated their 25th. wedding anniversary in Nov. 1994. All the relatives and friends came.
Well, we'll leave the story at this point since she's got both of us married off, and wait till next week for more of the story.
JB
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