45 Years . . .

It all started with a blind date for a hotdog roast set up by fellow telephone operator with a couple of Air Force guys in 1965 and a wedding in 1966. . . 

March 24, 1966  - March 24, 2011

And all the addresses over the years - went from Amarillo to Hampton / Newport News, VA to Sherman to Garland to Sherman to Denison to Howe to Lubbock to Levelland to Lubbock to Odessa to Sherman to Cross Cut (Cross Plains) to Sherman to Cross Plains to our current home here in AZLE. Whew!!

Now it is  45 years of marriage later with three children, six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

And to Jerry:
It was such a pretty day we decided to
take a walk,
And we had not gone ten steps
before I knew
That you and I are long past
the point of no return.

Hand in hand we go
Still close, still loving,
Still looking and overlooking
The flaws we hide from others.

Side by side we move,
Sometimes closer, sometimes farther apart
Because of ways we read and talk,
Agree and disagree.

Step by step we advance
Against the cynics,
Those all-knowing unknowings who honestly think
Marriage is dead.

But how can marriage be dead
In a world I choose to walk with you?

How can marriage be dead,
So long as we still seek, still cling,
still want each other?

So at this corner of our life,
Stop and listen to me now, my love,
I still seek,
I still cling,
I still want
To walk the rest of the way with you.

In this uncertain world
This much I know for certain:
I still love you.