Dick and Sue

I first became aware of Sue during my second year at Caruthers High. She sat behind me in our business math class. I had a part time girl friend at the time - Ann Whitener, shown below. Sue was engaged to an older man and it was known that she was going to get married that summer. She was living with her father in a farm tenant house. My only involvement that year was the fact that I had done none of the homework required in my class work book (bad boy!). Sue offered to do it for me and she copied her answers to my book. She did such a good job - I received an "A" and she only got a "B". (The teacher was my coach!!). Sue was back in school the following fall, so apparently the wedding bells didn't ring. There was still no involvement with Sue, as my part time girl friend was now a full time girl friend and we continued this way until the December of our senior year when Ann and I split up.

I was on the basketball team and we used to play at Riverdale High School Gym. The school bus would take me to the game, but since I lived out of the district it could only take me to within two miles of my home, so on game nights I walked. Sue and her three girl friends came to the games (her father's car) and Sue offered to take me home if I could crowd in. This contact grew to a monthly date

After graduation, Sue moved in with Frances and Roy. She worked at Gottschalks downtown. On Christmas Eve I proposed. She said yes. We tied the knot in the Carson City, Nevada, Court House. We were married by a judge with two witnesses attending on March 29, 1950.

We went to San Francisco for a five day honeymoon and then rented an apartment on M Street in Fresno. We later lived in three other locations around Fresno

November 30, 1950, Katrina was born and we were now a family of three.......................and we remained that way. Sue had a very difficult pregnancy and was sick the whole time, even into the delivery room. She didn't want to consider another child, until Katrina was about five, but by then I felt that a six year spread was not good, so we stayed the family of three.