When, where, and how did you meet your wife? How old were both of you?
Meeting Ann and Marie at the Duchesne High School library.
My mother Ilean, was the librarian for the high school in Duchesne. We were in the process of getting a new high school in Duchesne and the old gymnasium was where the library was being located until a new wing of the school could be made and the new library located there.
So in the summer prior to the start of school in 1967 (I was then 14.) as I was getting ready to enter 8th grade I was helping mom set up the books in the make shift shelves in the (old gym) new library. I was putting the books in alphabetical order on the shelves and mom was at the desk typing up the missing library cards for me to put into the books.
As we were working a knock came on the doors and two young girls walked in to the library. One of them was somewhat taller than the other who was obviously very shy and stood shyly behind her older sister. The older one introduced themselves as Ann, a sophomore and Marie Behrmann, a 7th grader, and that they were new to school and lived just down the road from the high school. Mom then introduced me to them I think since I don’t remember but mom wouldn’t have done anything else since she was very proper and that would have been the protcol. Well little did I know at that time that I would get to know the younger one really well and also learn to love her even more. I thought at that time that she was pretty darn cute with emphasis on the "pretty" part. That was the first time I saw her and it would not be the last. She did live just down the road and there were many times in the following four years that I would watch her as she walked to school each morning and I would be sitting on the planter box by the new library which was built the following year. I also got to know the older one and in fact we received our mission calls the same day in 1972. (That’s another story.)
