The Beginning

We met in Louisville, KY at a mortgage banking seminar in June of 1982. She lived in Minneapolis and I was in Findlay, OH. As chance would have it, I was scheduled to attend a convention in Minneapolis later in June, and I wangled her contact information from her. While in Minneapolis, I wined & dined her, and she invited me to her parents home in Lake Pepin, WI for the Fourth of July. I accepted. Long story short, we were married October 9, 1982. (Ironically, twenty-six years later to the day she was diagnosed with cancer.)