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December 13, 2010

Editors Comment: I have been having a difficult time trying to figure out how I will remember things about my first marriage. I have decided to insert into the regular Blogs items about my first marriage and just tell you at what point in time the events happened.

First Marriage

I will now pick up where I left off in Blog (26) where I called my first wife-to-be from a friend’s house.

Two or three days passed by and then I decided to call the girl (Sharon) that I had called from my friend John’s house and introduced myself as the Sac City Welcoming Committee Representative and tell her the truth. I called Sharon and apologized for my first call and explained to her why I had called her as well as I could.

One of my classmates happened to be home there in Sac City and I told Sharon that maybe I could introduce her to my classmate (Carmen) so she would have someone to visit with sometime. I don’t know if she ever called Carmen.

I then went on with the conversation and eventually ask if she would like to go out for a cup of coffee. She accepted my invitation and we had our first meeting together like a date.

The only problem was that when I picked her up at her apartment it was after 10 PM and there was nothing open in Sac City at that time of the day where we could get a cup of coffee. I then suggested that she come with me over to my house where I told her my parents always have the coffee pot on.

So our first date (if you want to call it that) was a trip to meet my parents at my house. It was a somewhat strange beginning but, nevertheless, that is where it started.

After that first meeting we were together all the time almost every day. We seemed to be attracted to each other. We dated for almost a year before we decided to get married. We got married on June 5, 1966 in her hometown of Dysart, Iowa.

In March of 1966 I had decided to leave the bank and got a job at a regional cooperative in Fort Dodge, Iowa called Felco. I started working a little over 3 months before we got married and I lived in a hotel (the Warren Hotel) in downtown Fort Dodge.

Just a few weeks before our wedding I was able to find a large third floor apartment close to the downtown area that I rented so we would have a place to live.

Sharon got a job teaching in a small town close to Fort Dodge and I went to work at Felco. I will stop here and go to my job at Felco next. Then I will come back to my first marriage and recall when we adopted our two boys after 5 years of marriage.

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