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 fair grounds! (Laughs) I knew who he was and he knew who I was but it was just where we made the connection.

We dated for quite a while because I wasn’t ready to get serious and settle down. Of course he was quite a bit older than I was and he was ready.

His name is Donald, and he was a farmer back then. When we got married we moved to town. He had worked with his father and that farm wasn’t big enough for two families so he went to work for Dow Chemical. He retired from there and now he’s the stay-at-home husband and does the housework and cleaning and cooking and I work!

As I say, I had a girl and two boys. My daughter was a very quiet and she married right out of high school and moved to Colorado to an Army base. From there to Hawaii and back home in a hurry when she got to Hawaii because on an Army salary they couldn’t live over there, you know?

Both of my boys went to college and one is vice president of Duke Reality down at Devlin, Ohio. He’s in the old design build section. He goes out to job sites and looks at the ground and decides what he wants to design, designs it, builds it and turns it over to, you know, he’s done a marvelous job.

My youngest son is branch manager for Applied Industrial Technology so, you know, I feel that – I’m proud of my daughter too, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that she chose, rather that she had her choice and we’ll pay for wedding or college. Make up your mind, and she chose a wedding.

I was a teenager in the Second World War. My brothers were both in Vietnam and yeah, it seems like there has been a lot of conflicts, I guess you want to call them, during my lifetime.

Well, one brother was; before he joined the company, was stationed in Saigon, and then it was Saigon. He could be blindfolded and he could tear down and rebuild a coding and decoding machine just by the feel of different parts and stuff. That was what he did.

He went down to see his one brother one weekend over Christmas holiday. His other twin brother was on his third tour of duty in Vietnam. He says he’s never been afraid until his brother came to see him and there were guards that slept across the door front, inside and outside the door, and under the windows. He said that was the first time he was afraid. He decided it was the last tour he was gonna do. So you know how valuable my brother was.