During WWII. I was teaching in Cincinnati. I joined the USO, which had a place right on Fountain Square in the downtown of Cincinnati and I would go down there once a week and entertain the troops. Most of them were from across the river because there was an army base over there and so that’s where I met the man I married, at the USO.

I met John about 1942. About six months after I met him he was sent to New York and then he was sent to France. So then I didn’t see him for about three years after that.

We wrote back and forth a lot and we said we’d get married when he got back and so when he got back we got married.

He came back late in ’45 and, well in fact, today, February 1, is the anniversary of when we got married. Okay, 61 years. (Long pause) Okay, that’s about it.

I was married in 1946 to John F. Winkle. We have four children: Sharon, Sandra, Catherine and Kevin. Three girls and a boy and the youngest girl and the boy are twins.

In 1960, or ’61, I’m not sure which, my husband was superintendent of schools in Claremont County and there came an opening in the first grade school there and so we decided I would go back to teaching and we moved to Batavia, Ohio and I taught there two years. Then, he came to the University of Cincinnati and he taught there for several years and so we moved here, to Findlay Ohio.

The reason the University of Cincinnati comes into it is – I went there of course. I got my degree there – when John came home from the war he had already gotten his regular degree, his Bachelor’s degree before the war, and he decided he would do more so he worked on his Master’s and his Doctor’s at the University of Cincinnati.