Hi "Roy"! I loved your story! Micky is definately with the Lord in Paradise and
keeping her eye on YOU! I know without a doubt that's true because my Dad
helped me take care of my mother - his beloved Helen.
Here's the story about how they met :
My father was a handsome fellow and he had alot of women chasing after him
before, during, and after the war. He was rather quiet & shy and when he came
home in '45, his buddies who were still in Germany wrote letters teasing him:
"Which one are you gonna marry Frank? or are you gonna keep 'em all dangling?".
Well, he didn't marry any of them. He had to wait till he met Helen.
When I asked my mother how they met, this is what she told me:
"Well, when I was teaching elementary school in Boston, I stopped to get
my car inspected & your father was at the same garage getting HIS car inspected
and he walked over & started talking to me."
(at this point I'd say: "C'mon MA!!! Dad just started talking to you???)
"Yes, and then he asked me out to the movies"
( Dad asked you OUT!!! And what did you say, Ma?)
"I said OK"
(MA!!! You said OK??? How could you do THAT? You'd just met him! )
"Things were different then, dear. Your father was a gentleman"
(OK so what happened after you went out?)
Two weeks later, he asked me to marry him.
(TWO WEEKS!!! Ma, what did you say?)
" I said: "Well Frank, I'll have to think about it."
(Then what Ma?)
"We picked out an engagement ring the next month on Dec 7th."
(Well Ma, you certainly didn't think about it very long. You meet this STRANGER
on oct 31st - Halloween for goodness sake! and then you get engaged on Pearl
Harbor Day. I'm surprised Dad didn't make you get married on the anniversary
of D-day!")
"No, but we did get married in June, 6 months later."
My parents were married June 28th 1952 and I was born
the following May. My dear Dad passed away 31 years to the day he met Helen
on Oct 31st 1982.
My mother was scheduled for emergency bypass surgery on Dad's birthday in 1996.
I remember praying: "Now look Daddy, I know you'd like to have Ma as a birthday present,
but FORGET IT! You can't have her yet. I need her down here with me!".
My mother came through surgery with flying colors that day & I was blessed to have her with me 8 more years. Frank waited along time to have his Helen back with him & I know
his joy is complete now.
Here's a photo they took in one of those old photo booths when they were on their
honeymoon. My father looks like the cat that swallowed the canary! He was with the woman
that he'd love for the rest of his life.
all the very best!!
Mary Ann