Thanks to all and Tee you are right my cooking saved me many times!!! Here is a little about how we met.
Aug 20 2016
Nancy and I first met 51 years ago at the Greyhound Bus Station here in Wapakoneta. She worked as a secretary at WPAFB and was home for a visit. I was in the US Air Force and stationed at WPAFB. I was on the bus after visiting my home for the week end; she got on and smiled at me.
We talked waiting on a bus in Dayton to Fairborn. A couple weeks later I met her outside the building where she worked and drove her home; we made a date for later. A year later we were married.
During that year she went on a 21 day trip to Europe she had planned and I went to Thailand for 4 months. We were engaged after I returned.
We were married in her church in Wapakoneta and moved into base housing at WPAFB. Six months after we were married I was sent to a remote site in King Salmon Alaska for a year. I rented an old cabin on the King Salmon Creek for the month of August. She flew up to be with me on our first anniversary; had a great time and ate a lot of salmon.
I was on my second 4 year hitch in the USAF and had planned to stay in. We talked it over and wanted children but didn’t want to move them all over so I was discharged when I left Alaska. We stayed in Fairborn about 6 months and then moved to Minster Ohio and I worked as an electrician at Crown Controls New Bremen Ohio.
After 2 ½ years we bought our first home in New Bremen. After 2 years I got a job as an electrician at Ford Engine Plant in Lima Ohio.
After 6 months of driving the 38 miles twice a day to work we bought a home in Wapakoneta to be closer. We have been here for 43 years where we raised a boy and a girl. Our son is married and they have a son. It’s great having the grandson just 3 blocks away.
It’s ironic that our home is just about 4 short blocks from the Greyhound Bus Station where we first met. It is Woody’s Diner now.
Smokin Don
