It's An Anniversary

On Friday, April 17, 1970, Chuck and I got married. That was 39 years ago today. Chuck is gone now, but I still celebrate the anniversary of the most important day of my life. After all, had I not married Chuck, I would not have 3 wonderful daughters, 3 beautiful grandchildren, a beautiful home, and lived such a full and happy life. Yes, there were lots of ups and downs--our first daughter was born with a birthmark on her head and face and had to endure many surgeries throughout her lifetime to remove it and allow her to look as beautiful as she does today. We survived Terrible Tuesday, April 10 1979 in Wichita Falls, Tx, when the most deadly tornado up until that time destroyed our apartment and most of the city. And, in 1992, Chuck was diagnosed with lung cancer and went through radiation and the surgery to remove the tumor and part of his right lung. Two years later the cancer had matasticized to his left hip and in order to save his life, doctors had to amputate his leg. Chuck handled it better than the rest of us. His comment: "Whenever I have thought about the important things in my life, I never thought about my leg."

I'm sure anyone reading this might not think that we did have such a wonderful life, but you have to understand that these life altering events just interupted our life--they didn't destroy it. Awesome things happened to us along the way too. We had two other beautiful daughters, Chuck became a Vice President of Western Auto, and when Sears bought them out, we were very fortunate to profit enormously from the sale of our stock. We had so much fun raising our family, traveling, building and creating beautiful homes--life would just not have been the same if we had not married each other 39 years ago today.