Do you have any vivid memories of your grandparents?

 My mother's mother, Nerva Layne, was living with my mother. My mother had a job and went to work daily.

My grandmother had asthma. My grandmother died of an asthma attack while she was at home alone.

Asthma has reduced or total airflow stoppage in the lungs.

I witnessed other asthma attacks, which my grandmother had. It was horrible to hear and see her attacks. I can imagine the sounds and sights, when she died.

Asthma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma

My great grandmother, Katherine Kaestner, fainted at a church harp performance. She'd get carried away, and pass out. 

She quit her normal routine, quit eating and drinking, and went to bed. In about two weeks, she died.

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How did you decide to get married?

 I was in the Army at Ft. Eustis Virginia. I would go to Richmond, Virginia on week ends and holidays. We would go to the USO and other things. My wife and her close friend went to the USO also. I took my wife's friend, my future wife, and some other girls to my wife's friend, Gaynelle's home, from the USO. Gaynelle told my future wife that she wasn't interested in me. After that, my future wife Mary, started sitting next to me in the car. Mary called me at Ft. Eustis and told me that her boss told her to call me and get straightened out, because I was affecting Mary's behavior. The call was announced at my whole company's group, standing in formation at our company. Mary's mother helped Mary to get permission to get married.

June 27, 1953 we were married at Resurrection Lutheran church in Richmond, Virginia. Mary's sister and her husband stood with us at our wedding. There were flowers at the ceremony, because another wedding was scheduled shortly after our wedding.

Sixty nine years after the wedding: My wife waits on me hand and foot. She puts drops in my eyes. If I had not married a teen ager, I might not have someone to help me now.

High school subjects

 What were your favorite subjects in high school

High school subjects:

Latin, German, Greek, English, Math, Civics

Description: Desired, liked, popular, affection, fashionable, in demand

These courses don't fit a liked list. I'd say English was disliked the least.

What I'm saying is; none of my high school subjects were a favorite.

I took four years of Latin, two years of German, and three years of Greek.

Model T Ford

 What did you hide from your parents as a child?

I didn't want my parents to know that I consumed alcoholic beverages.

I had a model T Ford that was given to me by neighbors, when I was a teenager.

A couple friends and I drank too much, and I wrecked the car. I do remember drinking wine, but I don't know what else. My mother knew what had happened, but she tried to keep it quiet. She and no one else talked to me about it.

The car could have been repaired, but I didn't do it.

The car ended up in the junk yard.

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What are your favorite recipes either to cook or to eat?

I like baking white yeast bread. I also like baking cinnamon rolls.

I enjoy eating banana bread. Pound cake and strawberries sounds good.

Pulled pork is one of my favorite foods.

I like beans...all kinds of beans. Pinto beans are tasty, lima butter beans are good, baked beans, refried beans, redbeans and rice, beans and bacon, great northern beans, green beans, and bean dip are musical fruit. There was a truckstop in Mississippi that served just bread and red beans. You could eat all you could eat.

My wife makes jambalaya gumbo. I like boiled shrimp, fried oysters, and raw oysters. She makes frito pie. She makes halusky. She makes shepherd pie.

Root beer floats are special. Then there are milk shakes. Peach pie is real good.

I've eaten more chocolate pudding than most people.

Chocolate cake with chocolate syrup and soft ice cream at Golden Corral is a treat. Turkey breast with cranberry sauce at the Golden Corral is tasty. 

Swiss steak; I haven't had any in a long time, but I'm ready for some anytime. 

A restaurant in Michigan had chicken giblets and rice in their freezer.

Try baked biscuits and honey from Bob Evans sometime!

A restaurant in Yuma, AZ served guacamole in serving bowls. You could eat all you wanted, and they refilled the bowls.

Pizza and pepperoni please taste buds. Just plain pepperoni does the same.

We can't forget peanut butter, mixed nuts, and chocolate peanut clusters.

A truck stop in Gary, IN had moist lemon cake on their menu. It was the best I have ever tasted.

There's some good barbecue in Memphis, TN.

They served boiled shrimp sandwiches on a train from Gary, IN.

We ate at a restaurant in Allison Park, PA, which offered all the ice cream with trimmings that you could eat. Sadly, they went out of business.

Eat and Park in Allison Park, PA was one of our favorite restaurants.

My mother gave hunks of Wisconsin cheddar cheese as gifts. A slice six inches in diameter and one half inch thick made a sandwich. George Limber's store in Ayersville, OH, sold the same sandwich.

Try this: Let a hunk of sharp cheddar cheese set a couple hours to let it get soft and to room temperature. If you don't enjoy it, then you're not like me.

What is one of the most expensive things that you've ever bought?

Cars, trucks, and houses are the most expensive things I've bought.

We bought a house in Defiance, Ohio for about $15,000 in the 1960's.

We bought a car for about $33,000 in 2013. The trucks weren't very expensive.

A Volvo truck tractor; $199,000. Add the price of two trailers.