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Catherine Browning McFarlane: This Man or No Man Well I was three and he was five, and he said "I’ll take your hand wee Cathy", and I was smitten. The next time I saw him he was 13 and ... |
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Elizabeth: Romance and Marriage I honestly cant say i ... |
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Rev. Theresa M. Lister:
My first date I went to a Ittalian restaurant. I remember making my drink last all night. They played music at our table. I only dated a few times in my ... |
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A New Beginning:
Because of the sexually abuse, I became a victim myself. I had troubled relationships with boyfriends because I thought that it was exceptable to be abuse before having sex because that ... |
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Paul M. McLaughlin: Paul and Liz SEVEN McLaughlin married on August 12, 1991 in Eugene, Oregon http://www.efn.org/~scan
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DEVONTE ERVIN:
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charlotte gibbs: The Love of my life Growing up in church there was this little guy who liked me. I was like 7 and he was 5 years old. His ... |
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Connie Vilas-Tolopilo:
Antonio & Connie celebrated 50 years of marriage on May 10, 1996. |
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Kathleen M. Plona Rogers: Just a Fairytale My very first boyfriend was ... |
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Florence Louise Light Manning Flynn: Florence Louise Light Marries..... Florence Louise Light was married to Charles Leonard Manning and had four children: Charles Leonard Manning (October 15,1949), Donna Lynn Manning (August 26,1951), Deborah Florence Manning (May 16,1954) and James Thomas ... |
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Antonio Tolopilo:
Anthony & Connie celebrated 50 years of marriage May 10, 1996. |
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Henry Tolopilo:
Henry & Barbara married November 24,1972 |
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MARVA:
I had many admirers but , I married Wilson D Reed ,some of my admirers were Ron,Louis,Brille,Sammy Preston, LOL John and Robert they were all great |
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Timmetria Thomas:
I fell in love at the age of 16. My first and only love name is Anton Huffman. He is the father of my two beautiful girls. We were in engaged to ... |
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Corrina Cop Rain McFarlane: Effervescent Mirth & Brilliant Mundanity He said when he saw me with 5 year old Freddie, shrieking with delight at scenes in Shrek, he knew he would have loved me if we had met when we ... |
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Betty Endrek: We Were Married 9 Days before Pearl Harbor My husband was going to Findlay College when I met him and, ah, he was in – he had a sports scholarship and he played baseball and basketball for Findlay College ... |
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Dorothy Zeyen: I Was a Wartime Bride I met Louie dancing at that one thing that we danced at. I didn’t like him at all. I thought he was a… he was eleven and I was nine. ... |
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John Matson: Dodie, we’re in deep, deep trouble! I don’t remember that I ever had an official first date. We would get together as groups of guys, a bunch of girls, whatever. Probably the ... |
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Dorothy Gibson: We Used To Go Dancing Almost Every Weekend. On my first date, we sat at my house. The boy came in. We sat at home in the living room. My mother and father sat on the front porch. And ... |
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Faye Stone: Mom Always Told me I should Marry a Veterinarian After the commune, and Christian’s near-miss drowning, Chuck joined the Air Force. He was stationed in Sacramento and he and I and Christian moved back in together. We were giving it ... |
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Nancy Tucker: Meeting Vern Our first meeting was a blind date. My roommate Lynn Stetzer had a friend in Vrn's dorm. Loren liked Lynn. She didn’t like him so much, but they decided that we should get ... |
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Virginia Congdon Robertson: Two Wonderful Marriages I had one boyfriend that was a friend of the family. I guess I started dating when I was a sophomore maybe. I went with a boy for a while, and ... |
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Zora Thompson: For Our Wedding, We Literally Broke the Bank We had a little glass bank and we used to put quarters in it. Joe didn’t have a car, but would walk to get an ice cream, then walk back home. ... |
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Val Wiese: Married for 12 Years, with 3 Children I was in France a little less than two years, for part of 1965, all of 1966, and part of 1967. I had been dating a woman since sixteen years old. ... |
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Tony Channin: An Unlikely Way to Meet Your Future Wife I was in Australia for a few months. ... |
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Than Bischoff: As Soon as I Saw Diana, I Knew I’d be with her for the Rest of My Life Today I’m pretty happy with my life. I don’t use any alcohol or drugs. I ran into Diana Celeste who was the gal that I had dated in high school. I ... |
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Vern Tucker: We Had No Honeymoon We had no honeymoon. I got off active duty August 1st. I started work September 4th, which was her birthday, and got married in October. We got married the day of ... |
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Sylvia Wall: It was Love at First Sight When I went to college I used to enjoy dancing. When my husband got out of the service they told him: “you’d better learn how to dance if you want to ... |
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Sharon Abernethy: I Married and Had Five Children I met Rob in 1961. We were married in 62. His family had moved down from the Oakland/Piedmont area to the Santa Cruz Mountains where they lived on a ranch. When I ... |
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Scott Bloom: A Housing Vacancy Turns into a Romance I met Lori, who is a hair stylist. She used to cut my hair. She still cuts my hair. So, quick version of the story – it is a good story. ... |
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Ruth Schimpl-Gremling: I’m Setting My Cap for Him We also had a K of C club and we learned to square dance there and invited the three Catholic schools to participate. When I first met him I was still ... |
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Ruth Sampson: I Hid My Engagement Ring from my Mother I wanted to be a nurse but I had two years of Latin and back in those days you had to have Latin. Oh, I just didn’t like it, so that’s ... |
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Ron Lyons: When a Woman Asks You to Marry Her, DO NOT Tell Her You Want to Think it Over! I courted my wife off-and-on for seven years. Rose Marie and I were married on February 9, 1963. Nine months later we had a child, a son. After that my wife ... |
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Robert Hutchinson: I had always wanted the redheaded lover I had always wanted the redheaded lover, but I could never find one until I found Robert. One day I told him to just move in. I said: “if it works, ... |
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Robert Ede: We Got Married, and the Bigger Romance Began I met my wife-to-be in about 1940. Her name was Ann Ruffin. We hit it off. After a year of dating we got married, and the bigger romance began. We were ... |
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Robert Berryessa: My brother was a teacher and he had a student named Carolyn My brother was a teacher and he had a student named Carolyn. She was attractive, and 22 and a half years younger than me. We met through my brother, who is ... |
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Rikki Willett: John Whisks Me Away to Catalina Island, and Proposes By this time John and I were dating; we had been high school sweethearts. We started dating when we were sixteen. We both went to community college, and then he went ... |
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Rick James: I Begin a 25-Year Relationship with a Well-Known Radio and TV Journalist When I was in college the Shah of Iran was in power. Woodbury College was one of the few American universities approved by the government of Iran, so my university was, ... |
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Richard Magen: ?My Marriage was Crazy, Crazy? When I came back to United States from Canada I hooked up with my first wife. After she got out of school we were living together. She lied to our parents, ... |
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Ralph Hempfling: I Met My Wife at IBM Sidney, Ohio is where I met my wife, Rosalie Luthman. Well, she worked as a key punch and I fixed them, so… (Laughter) We worked in various – at that time ... |
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Ralph Appio: They said they had a just the girl for me. I didn’t really have a girlfriend in high school. I met my girlfriend when I got out of the service. Her uncle and aunt were good friends of my folks. They ... |
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Phoebe Katherine Cookson Plassman: I Met My Husband while he was in the Hospital And so, well my senior year in college I met my husband. He had an emergency appendectomy at the hospital. I was working as a nurse’s aid to put myself through ... |
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Phil Camacho: We Got Married First, then Fell in Love So, I stayed there and then I made the mistake of getting married. I got married the same year that I got out. I got married in November 1952. I got ... |
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Peggy Winkle: I Met John at the USO in 1942 During WWII. I was teaching in Cincinnati. I joined the USO, which had a place right on Fountain Square in the downtown of Cincinnati and I would go down there once ... |
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Peggy McGovern: Jim Was a Turning Point in My Life It is the only marriage (Laughs), and I beat the odds, but I have a friend who beat me with more than I (Laughing). Jim is my first marriage. I had ... |
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Norma Starr: Joys and Sorrows in my Marriages I got married in 1944 to Howard Johnson. Well, I did really because he came around. He and his friend would come around and stop at night. But then dad let ... |
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Bozitza Popovich: AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE, and the START OF A FAMILY WHEN MY MOTHER WAS 22, HER MOTHER ARRANGED A MARRIAGE FOR HER ... |
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Bob Newman: While Stationed in North Africa, I Marry Andree Back in 1942 and Africa life was pretty normal except that I was working for the army instead of working for the telephone company. We had an officer’s club, and at ... |
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Bertine Hancock: During WWII My Husband-to-be becomes a 90-Day Wonder We went to school together, but we didn’t date in school. Then we started dating before he went into the service. His name is Jim Hancock, and he was in the ... |
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Bernie Miller: The Army Chapel in Deming, New Mexico, 1943 I got married in Deming New Mexico. I was in New Mexico for a little more than two years. I had met my wife when I was going to Fresno state. We got married in the army chapel in Deming on July 3, 1943. |
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Bernard "Barney" Bricmont: My Wife Turned Me Into a Statewide Campaigner for Better Reading I had a short, youthful marriage that only lasted about a year after I got out of the Marine Corps. Her name was Sherry Mosul. That was in the real early ... |
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Bequia Cooper: Alan Proposed to me on the One-year Anniversary Of our first Cruise aboard Doubloon The first time I met Alan he was in a kayak and so was I. He was the big duck taking us little beginner ducks along to keep us safe. It ... |
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Angelo Grova: Beverly and I, and Engels Frozen Foods I graduated from Rutgers in 1976, met Beverly. We got married in ’78. We bought a house in Scotts Valley. The kids were happy. I got a job at UCSC in ... |
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Analydia Scoggins: He Looked at Me as if I Were the Most Beautiful Woman in the World I enjoyed my time at Louisiana state university in Baton Rouge. I would visit New Orleans often where I enjoyed the jazz scene. I loved jazz. I had a group of ... |
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Aldo Cooper: “Let’s Try It” Out of the blue one night… I don’t know ... |
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Florence Hunter: Four husbands, Seven Children I had seven children. Three girls and in my ... |
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Emilia Gallegos: My Husband and I: The Long and the Short of It In the meantime, my mother and I were in San Jose, working in the canneries. When we finished our work at the cannery, we moved to San Quentin. One Christmas or ... |
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Elnora Taylor: My Husband-to-Be and Our Clockwork Engagement While I was working as an usher in the theater, it was my job to make sure that no one put their feet on the seats. I had a friend who ... |
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Elizabeth Lucille Rozelle: I met my Husband on a Blind Date in 1953 or 54 I met my husband on a blind date in 1953 or 54. We went to the fair. I was, well really, let’s don’t sugarcoat it. I was a pickup at the ... |
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Edward John McInerney: I Met My Wife While Working at Intel ... |
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Doug and Ginger Levick: To Win Ginger, I had to Compete with a Large Cadre of Other Guys After Business School I went to work for the international part of IBM in the financial side of it, the World Trade Corporation in New York City. I was very interested ... |
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Doris Robertson-Polley: I Earn my “PHT” Degree for Putting Hubby Through There wasn’t much of a romance, really. Don and I just decided to get married, so we had a small wedding. He was going to school and I had to work and help out. When Don left Stanford they gave me a PHT certificate. That stood for “putting hubby through.” |
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Walta Lou Wilcox: Mel Impressed me When He Asked to Meet My Mother 1953 we graduated and that was a good year, and I was engaged at the time. Mel was in the service and he was stationed out in California in the Army. ... |
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Don George Alexander: 63 Years of Marriage I got married in ’42 in August. We were married 63 years when my wife passed away. She passed away in this facility over here too. That’s the reason I came ... |
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Denise Morra: I Met Bill on the Dance Floor, and I Knew He Was the One for Me When I was at Hunter there was a dance ... |
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Debra Hummel: Getting Through Some Tough Times But, two years later, even though I didn’t get over it there was a guy in the congregation named Terry Hummel. We didn’t really have a lot in common. He’s my ... |
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Darwin Hintz: She Was a City Girl; I Was a Country Boy I think I met my wife through a church affiliation. She was a city girl and I was a country boy. I guess that’s not a normal procedure in those years. ... |
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Dale Townsend: A Unique Romance The first time I was here in Mexico with Tom and Evelyn and I met Heriberto, the man I married. We had a little thing going on. We really liked it ... |
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Chris Beaudoin: From Clueless in Relationships, to Marriage in Mexico City Rick was the first man I was involved with. We were both very, very young when we met and I really had no clue as to how a relationship should work. ... |
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John Donovan: Love at First Sight ... |
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Jim McGovern: The Stories of Two Wonderful Marriages My first wife’s name was Rose Carolyn Knoll McGovern. She was the mother of my five children. We were married in January of 1949 and orchids range in age from 57 ... |
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Jean Disher: I Marry and We Adopt Two Children Well, I got married to Jim as a home economist for the power company. After I graduated from Heidelberg I started a job in Limo, Ohio with Ohio Power Company as ... |
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George Newell: Romance is Important. I Am Always in Love Yeah, I got married in my senior year at Okalahoma State. I married Eugenia Stites and we were married for 17 years. So, she came out with me to California and ... |
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George Dunn: I Was Married for 57 Years I got married and I was married for 57 years. My wife died about a year and a half ago. I have three girls and I got seven grandchildren but no ... |
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Mickey Frazer: Jack and I Meet While Honky-Tonkin Alaska wasn’t too tough, because I lived in Wyoming and Montana. There really isn’t much difference between those places. I lived in the barracks, and I usually walked to work. A ... |
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Michael Popovich: I MARRY and BEGIN A FAMILY IN SEPTEMBER OF 1918, I STARTED TO MAKE NECESSARY REPAIRS ON THE OLD ZIVKOVICH HOUSE WHERE I BOARDED. RUMORS STARTED THAT I WOULD MARRY ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS. IN SIX MONTHS ... |
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Mel Wilcox: The Way to a Lady’s Heart is through Her Mother Well, in our younger days we used to run around and go to these towns picking up these young ladies. That’s where I met her in Fostoria. Now, I am not ... |
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Mattie Leeds: Deep Relationships and Profound Learnings Now that I am 57 I can look back. As I look back on my relationships are realized there was something going on; there was something that engaged me rather than ... |
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Matt Cocchi: He was the Person for Me, and I’ve Never Swayed When I met Val, I knew it was him. It was in my mind talking to him in the hot tub, I knew he was the person for me and I ... |
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Mary Margaret Donovan: We Got Married During Pennsylvania’s Worst Snowstorm I went with John as a freshman then I went with other kids and he did too. But we were always friends. Senior year we ended up dating and he went ... |
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Marjorie Hook: I Met Jake on a Streetcar before he Shipped out to India I met my husband-to-be on a streetcar in Denver. He was stationed in the Army in Denver and there were two amusement parks. My sister had come down and we were ... |
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Vince Tolaio: I Have Two Sons At the tannery we had ... |
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Mardi Brick: Tony and I Met at a Dance in San Jose My roommate and I went to a dance at the San Jose Civic Center. There were ... |
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Madonna Wagner: My Husband and I Worked Together I was dating at 16 and eventually at 18 when I graduated we got ... |
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Lenny Hobbs: Her Name is Marilyn, but everyone Calls Her DeeDee ... |
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Larry Coppes: We Were Destined to Meet I met my wife through some friends of mine. They were close family friends. ... |
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Kathleen Gambogi: I Met Bob on Valentine’s Day One day while I was home on vacation I met Bob. We met through a mutual friend. His mother and my mother were social friends. Sebastopol was a very tiny town ... |
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Juanita Marie Schuck-Harris: My Husband was one of the Famous Tuskegee Airmen So back in 1945 I was a librarian for Tuskegee. That’s also when I got married. We got married the day they dropped the atomic bomb, or maybe the day after. ... |
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June Rose Hoaglund: I got married in 1936 I got married in 1936. My husband passed away about three years ago. His name was Lloyd Walter Hoagland. We had four children. When we were in Cheyenne Wyoming, we lost a little girl. She is. In McCook Nebraska. with her grandmother. |
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Marilyn Patton: In my mid-20s I discover my Identity A person I really adored and ... |
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John Urbanski: I Met Jackie at the Rocking U Restaurant Jackie and I were married in 1979. When we opened our restaurant in 1977 I told my brother that I wouldn’t date employees. That listed for about a month. We dated for two years and got married on September 1, 1979. Our first son Matthew was born In August of 1980. Then we had our daughter Emily in 1982. Our youngest son Jeff was born in 1985. |
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John Rialson: She played violin and would go round from school to school to work with the kids ... |
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Bud Beaudoin: Bud Married "Peg" Warren in 1940 Bud married Margaret “Peg” Warren in 1940 in Schenectady, New York, He earned his law degree from Suffolk University in 1954, and was transferred to GE’s Nuclear Division in San Jose, as Director of Public Relations. In 1964, Bud left GE to pursue a successful new career as a real estate broker. |
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Lela Coppes: Larry Had Been in My Life for a Long Time, but I Didn’t Know It Romance and Marriage I graduated from Findlay high ... |
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