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 us sit out on the front porch and watch the cars go by, cause it was very few cars around on Lincoln Highway. We’d watch those or else I’d go to Cairo at the recreation center. I played ball. I was very active in sports and I played ball.

I had three children There was Richard, Robert and William. William was my youngest. He takes care of me. He was a popular boy. They all played sports. They played basketball, football, track and baseball. They lettered in all those. I was changing letters on ball sweaters then to keep up with them. They wore all of them.

There was one year they all three played football and was that a job to wash their uniforms! Cause they were white and Bill would get excessively dirty. He really enjoyed it. He really played good too. They all did. They all played hard.

I was married twice.

I was married 28 and a half years. Then I got a divorce from Howard. I raised the boys, but I stayed there until they were all graduated. They all graduated from Corey Rawson. They went to Rawson Grade School.

Then they all went to Korea, and he was in officer’s training school. Then he came back and he went to Ohio State in Lima until he got his – he graduated. Then he continued on after, and he got married, and he continued on to Ohio State and that was one thing that Bob and Bill were married to the same girl, (Laughs), Jackie. She was my daughter-in-law twice; Jackie Chey.

Bob got killed.

And Bill and Jackie had three boys and they’re still married. He graduated from Ohio State and got his Master’s degree in electrician and he works for Russell Electric out of Lima. He stayed there until he got retired from there. Then he went on to; he was hired at the Saint Rita’s Hospital in Lima. He is still working there.

In 1976, I was married to Harold Starr. He was managed of Food Town for 21 and a half years. I married him; I got engaged while he was working. Every day, Saturday, I’d go down to get my groceries and he would come down out of the office; always come down and wait on me, and he brought me to the 10 items or less line. I had more than that, but I always got it down and he checked me out. He kept that up and took care of me and he proposed to me in the grocery, where the sweets were.

We went together about six months. He invited me to a party at Continental and he had a time getting me to go. I had to tell him that I was busy one night and I was taking meal down to my folks down in Yarrow and I couldn’t go.

So he stopped on Monday night from the store and he asked me, “Would you go out for a meal?”

I said, “I’ll think about it.” He kept on until I went out with him. That got pretty serious. Finally, he asked if I’d marry him and I said I would, so we had a church wedding here in Findlay.

It was a nice one. I didn’t have a – I went to RC the first time and I had a church wedding the second time. We had several people there; a couple that I bought things from out of the Bargain City, cause I was still working there.

The guy from the photo center; they were there and my sister’s. I had one brother-in-law and about three years after my wedding he passed away of a heart attack. Harold died in 2003. I lived at the estates for five years, and I lived alone in a house trailer for five years. That was out on Hall Avenue. It was a small one. My first husband kept trying to find me but he never did.

He had a gun and he was going to get rid of me. But, he got married one year after we got divorced. So, he had another girl and he didn’t live very long. He died of cancer; leukemia. Then of course I lost my second one by heart attack.