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 service in the engineering department. It wasn’t called department…unit, and served in England for many years.

Before he went over he went to…what are they called Ninety day wonders He became an officer and he did real well in the service and he had no college, but he had started working as soon as he got out of high school for Marathon. It was Ohio Oil Company then. He was working there when he went into the service cause he enlisted. After he came back then we got married. It was 1948.

After the war, he worked at Bridgeport and I worked at Lawrenceville and we bought a house halfway between. We were married nine years before our daughter was born.

Well, he was recalled to service during the Korean War. That’s when I quit at Texaco and went with him. I wasn’t going to let him go away without me! He was stationed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. We lived in Alexandria, and I got a job there with the government.

I worked in an office in downtown Alexandria for the United States Army Treasury. And that was interesting too. I could walk to work. I was afraid I’d have to take a job at the Pentagon or in D.C. and to have to use transportation and I didn’t want to do that. This worked out real good.

The good news was the Jim didn’t have to go overseas. He came awful close. They went according to their length of service they had had overseas previously, and he had so much that they didn’t get down to his length of service, but we worried a lot.

Our first child came in 1957; her name is Beth Anne. We were married…I think we were married in ’48? Nine years, my husband used to laugh and say, “It takes most people nine months and it took us nine years!” (Laughter)

Well, she was born after we came back. After he served the Korean War we went back to our home and she was born, and we lived there until…let’s see, she was born in 1957 and we came back in the early 1950s I think.

Anyhow, she was six months old when my husband was offered a transfer here to Finley to the main office of Marathon. It was Marathon then. I was very much against it. After all, we had our home and we had our child and our life and I wasn’t in favor of it, but he felt that he should take it because there wasn’t always going to be work there.

We had oil fields there and they were going to play out some day and there wouldn’t be – cause already there were water flooding to get the last of the oil out of the ground, and I felt that this was long term. It would be a wise move.

So we moved up here. It was hard because we lived in the country, we had one car. He had to come right up here to work rather than wait six months or six weeks or until we – I had the house to sell there. No car! Lived out in the country! Six month old child! He drove home almost every weekend which was very hard on him and we finally got the move made. We got the house sold.

We were told not to buy a house in Findlay that he wasn’t going to be here long. He would be transferred around various places with the job they were going to put him on. So, we had to rent and it was not easy to find a rental house in Findlay, or apartment even. Then when he did find one it would be duplex or some such similar, they didn’t rent to children, people with children. A nine month child! (Laughs) Well, she was six months at the time he was looking. It took us about three months to get the move made, but he finally found one and we moved up. It worked out, like everything does.