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 and we were married on November 29, 1941.

My husband was he was inducted in – well, he was registered in Cuyahoga County. He was from Cleveland. The other classmates of his at Findlay College were registered in Hancock County and he had one semester to finish in college. The other boys all went in as Officers but he was going to be inducted and he didn’t want to be a foot soldier so he enlisted in the Navy and he went in as a Third Class Yeoman.

Then we had a son, Ardden, in July of 1942 and a daughter, Carol, born in July of 1943, and it was a tough time. I lived in Massachusetts while he was in the Navy and we had quite a time going back and forth between living in McComb and being in Fall River, Massachusetts. So…um…seven years later we had a daughter, Betsy, and two years later we had a daughter, Donna, and five years later we had another daughter, Frances. So we’ve had quite a family.

We lived out in the country because houses were still very scarce and we didn’t have running water or a bathroom, and so we really come up the hard way.

We lived there and then eventually we found a house in McComb and we lived on South Street in McComb in a rented house. In1950 we bought my grandfather’s house for $5,000, and I don’t know what we actually sold it for but it was quite a bit more than $5,000. Our in-laws came here from Cleveland and they wouldn’t help us to renovate the house and remodel it and get everything – we lived there about 15 years when we built our new house out South of McComb as part of my father’s farm. That’s about all I remember.