(continued from 2/9/18 post)
It was at this location that we spent
the next 12 years and saw the kids move through Wakefield High School
and go to college. Elaine began working for Civil Defense in the
Pentagon and transferred to the Forest Service where she and I
carpooled together. It was during these years that I completed my BBA
and MBA from George Washington University. Elaine and I both
advanced in our jobs, sold our Seward County farm to get the kids
through college, and anticipated Federal retirement in 1980. As an
economic investment and desire to get away from the buses shaking our
house, we bought a 5 bedroom house in the Mantua Area of Fairfax
County.
We closed on our house at 3515 Laura
Leaf Lane, Fairfax, VA on April 2, 1976. While we moved a lot of
stuff with our vehicles, used Mel Davis's truck to move the bench, it
wasn't until June 7th that we rented a U-haul truck.
Verlon and Vikki were major helpers with Mr. Ellis and Mel Davis
helping to unload. We were down to the
Davis's for supper about 9:00pm. Tim and Toni Ahl were married on
August 20th 1976 in Louisville, KY. Jon and Mary's formal
wedding was on June 11, 1977 in Blacksburg, VA. Both of Jon's
Grandfathers were in it. On September 15, 1977 we left with Manly and
Peggy Wilder on a GWU Octoberfest trip to Germany. Carolyn and
Victor Beaudry's wedding was held at our house on November 19, 1977.
I participated in a 3-week training session at Harvard University in
August of 1979. In February of 1980 I received a job offer from Dayle
Williamson to work on his NRC staff in Lincoln and on March 21,
bought the John Meyer 80-acre farm east of Seward. (To be continued)
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