I had one boyfriend that was a friend of the family. I guess I started dating when I was a sophomore maybe. I went with a boy for a while, and oh I had… we argued. He was a friend but he was always coming to get me and I would go because our folks were friends, you know. So I went out with him, and then I had another boyfriend I went with that went into the service. But I never went very much until I started going with Harold. And we didn’t go a lot because he had his tonsils out when he was in high school and he was sick for a long time afterwords. So he didn’t go very much either, and we went to a school dance. My mother used to take a bunch of us girls to the 4-H dances and the older people and seniors and all were there, and we danced with everybody.

I didn’t go to too many high school dances. A few. I went to the formals. Another friend took me to my first formal in high school. I wasn’t… I guess I was a sophomore maybe then, and he was a senior. He took me.

I met Harold on the train coming from Davis. I was in 4-H, real active in 4-H, and so he has been too, and we went to the convention in Sacramento and came back on the train. And I met him. And then I didn’t see him for a long time after that. You know, when he started dating me, we really only dated a month or something. We’d go for a month or two and then later once a week, but we couldn’t go out like kids do nowadays, you know? We went like if it wasn’t a school night, you could go to a show or something. So we dated about four years or more before we got married. I was twenty, almost twenty I guess.

I think I met my second husband, Gene Robertson, in 1990. I think I met him at Christmas in probably ’89. And I met him at a Christmas party that the Millers had for us, because he bought Tom’s house and so they knew this man that came from the coast and bought the house. And they told me about him and everything and then they invited us at the same time. And of course I knew his sisters real well, and I knew his family, his mom and dad, and his uncle and aunt there. All those families that I grew up with. And his mom and dad, and his grandfather. So we met at the party and he said that we would get together some night, go to dinner. You know, not a real date but we’d just go to dinner. And I never did hear from him again. Then I went a couple times with another fellow that I bowled with. And then in June, he called me for a date and we went out, and then we started going.

We married six months later. I always told my granddaughters, I always told them that be sure they went—because I went for a long time with Harold—be sure they were sure and everything. Go a long time with someone. And so when I told my granddaughter that I was getting married she was like, “But Nan, you always told us that you wouldn’t get married until you went with someone for a long time.” And I said, “Well, you have a lot more time than I do.” I was very fortunate to have two men that were good to me, because a lot of first marriages don’t work out and a lot of… we found during our marriage that there are a lot of second marriages that don’t work out. You know, people are always advising, “Oh no, you better not get married.” And so I was really fortunate that way. I had somebody that was really good to me.