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 going to the amusement parks and these two guys followed us.

They didn’t pay to get us in because they didn’t have that much money (Laughter), but they caught up with us after we got in there and that’s how I met him. His name was William.

But his dad had nicknamed him Jake and that’s what the kids in his family knew. Of course, we didn’t have much time to date because I went into the service after that and he ended up in India.

He was at – they were on a ship in the middle of the ocean when the war ended so they just decided to take them over to where they were going to be so he lived there for a while. I took my boot training in New York. There is a woman’s college there and they turned the college over to the Navy for the girl’s boot camp. I was stationed in Bethesda, Maryland. That’s where I got my medical.

My grandson went into the Navy about 50 years after I was there and we went down where they lived near Washington, D.C. and he took us for a drive around and went around Bethesda Hospital. I said, “Greg, this doesn’t look anything like it did when I was here 50 years ago!”

Well, after – we were married in San Francisco when my folks were up in Yale Valley and then we came to Ohio because this is where he was from and I was just old fashioned enough to think I ought to go where my husband lived (Laughs), so we were here. We raised seven children and I have 17 grandchildren, and I have 32 great-grandchildren. With another one on the way! (Laughs)

I lost my husband 30 years ago. They didn’t know enough about cancer 30 years ago like they do now. So, I’ve been alone since then outside of the kids. My family keeps growing in spite of me!

Then I moved up here. I’ve been involved with this agency, counseling agent. I volunteer at Fox____ Nursing Home once a week. When I’m here now I’m down, well I’m taking care of my daughter-in-law who lost a leg, but she’s doing great. She does everything by herself now. Even drives.