Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary, Pat and Gerry
How we wish we could be there in person to help you celebrate as you did for us in 2003. Tim asked us to tell how and where we met and to share a memory or two.
Pat, Mary Lue and Jim met in grade school in Sioux Falls and continued on to Cathedral High School and became close friends attending classes and glee club together. Pat also accompanied Jim on the piano when he took voice lessons from Sr. Mauricia. Pat and Mary Lue and a bunch of their girlfriends enjoyed slumber parties together. Jim and Mary Lue began going together in our Senior year and sometime double-dated with Pat and her many beaus during that time.
After graduation in 1949 we three went our separate ways - Pat and Mary Lue to college and Jim to the Air National Guard. After completing a year of college, Pat and Mary Lue returned to secretarial jobs in Sioux Falls and Jim became a photo engraver there too.
In 1952, Pat and Mary Lue decided to hit the dust of South Dakota and signed up for airline school in Omaha. We completed the course and were told to go home and we would be contacted when there was an opening with an airline! Pat took umbrage to that and took up residence in the Director's office, refusing to leave until we had received jobs! As a result, we began working for Trans World Airlines in Chicago on July 1st. We worked the 3 to 11 p.m. shift as reservationists and enjoyed it immensely.
In 1953, Jim and Mary Lue were married in Sioux Falls and Pat was one of our bridesmaids. (It was 103 degrees that day) Pat continued on at TWA for many years and eventually met and married the love of her life, Gerry. Although we have both lived many places in the past fifty years, we have maintained our friendship and always been in contact and visited each other when possible.
Now, we all live in sunny northern California and try to get together periodically.
Have a wonderful 50th Anniversary and many more to come.
Love,
Mary Lue and Jim Daniels
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