Then Bob, he is the one; he’s gone now, but he was the one that was injured so much. He liked to coon hunt and we had dogs and he’d take the dogs out coon hunting and he’d go around the woods at night and on Thanksgiving day he was out coon hunting and he fell out of the tree. It was cold and he had on gum boots and he fell out of the tree and the limb broke cause he fell. He had his gum boots on and the ground was frozen. As he stepped on the ground it broke both ankles. One of them it just crushed it. They said it was a heel crush like and airplane pilot, and the other one he cracked it and he was in the hospital a while.

He would stand at the door and try to walk and stand at the door and he’d fall down so much. His dad would take him and make him go outside. He was running corn up the elevator and make him keep running that corn up and he was on crutches and had his legs in casts. He’d walk; try to. They were walking casts and he’d go out and try to run down the elevator so he’d get so cold. His legs get cold quickest; his ankles. He would have quite a time because his dad was so mean to him.

He got crushed by a road roller. It fell over on top of him. He jumped free they think and he had those crippled legs and he jumped down in a four foot ditch and the road roller fell on top of him. He was working on the road for Hancock Asphalt & Paving, and he had been married a year and five months. They had no children but it was a real loss. The kids from; all of them from school – that was Corey Rawson School where he went, and the whole school went to his funeral. They had it in…right east of Caro at a little church. The church was full. People had to stand outside. They wouldn’t let me go.

It was just a shock to me when they come and told me, but I couldn’t go to the funeral home. I could go but lay in the back room. I took it so hard and his brothers did too. Bill was in Korea in the army and the Red Cross called him in Korea and they said they were going to send him home; Bill home, and they sent him home and he got honorable discharge and got to go home. But he kept on his schooling. He went to Ohio State and for a few years he went there and then he’d come home to do the farming cause we lived on a farm. I was first married to Howard Johnson.