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re: How Did Your Parents Meet?
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:17 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:17 pm to SaintlyTiger88
at a poker game
or so I'm told
God bless em
or so I'm told
God bless em
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Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:17 pm to SaintlyTiger88
My dad was going to a law conference in Arizona. There was one other Louisiana lawyer there. It was his future father in law. He brought his wife and my mom.
11 kids and grandkids later, here we stand.
11 kids and grandkids later, here we stand.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:18 pm to SaintlyTiger88
My mom and dad were high school sweethearts. My mom was a bookish overachiever and my dad was an underachieving musician.
They got married right out of high school in the late 60s, had 4 kids and divorced in the late 70s.
A love story as old as time.
They got married right out of high school in the late 60s, had 4 kids and divorced in the late 70s.
A love story as old as time.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:21 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I’ll ask him when he finally comes back with his pack of smokes
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:24 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Met at LSU in 1968. Married in 1969. Still married today.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:27 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Mom grew up in Nazi Germany. Dad was an MP at the Nuremberg Trials.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:28 pm to OWLFAN86
Ain’t no telling. Started dating at 13 got married at 18 about to celebrate 50 year anniversary
I think they met when my dad and uncle (moms brother) played on a West Baton Rouge parish all star baseball team when they were 10
I think they met when my dad and uncle (moms brother) played on a West Baton Rouge parish all star baseball team when they were 10
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:30 pm to LSUBoo
quote:Thats what my kids will say one day
Probably at Fred's
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:30 pm to SaintlyTiger88
At the old Burger Chef next to USL in Lafayette. Chance encounter.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:31 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Both were working for IBM after college. This was just before WWII. They married, he ended up working computer wisdom in timing of the DDay invasion re weather patterns. Then after the war went back to IBM and I came along and was one of the reasons they moved back south.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:32 pm to OWLFAN86
quote:congrats
I should have been trashy
You made it
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:32 pm to danilo
quote:There was a friend of mine, much older than me that told his wife he was going to get a loaf of bread. Two weeks later he shows up, with a loaf of bread. They got married, lol.
back with his pack of smokes
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:32 pm to Quidam65
quote:My old neighbors had a similar story with their parents
Mom grew up in Nazi Germany. Dad was an MP at the Nuremberg Trials.
Oma was a delightful warm woman.. She grew up in Dresden she agreed to share stories with me once 'cause she knew I was a history buff but it wasn't something she talked about a lot
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:34 pm to SaintlyTiger88
My mother had an after school job as waitress at the Diary Queen and my father came in one day and asked her out on a date. They’d never met because he went to high school one town over. They started dating and married the Saturday after they both graduated high school. A year later my brother was born. Almost two years after that I was born. Just over a year later they were both killed in a car accident. I don’t remember anything about either of them of course.
My grandparents (on my mother’s side) met at a dance for troops getting ready to ship out to WWII. They wrote each other while he was in basic training. When he finished basic training, he came home on leave long enough to get married. When he came home from the war they had two kids, first my uncle and then my mother.
My grandparents (on my mother’s side) met at a dance for troops getting ready to ship out to WWII. They wrote each other while he was in basic training. When he finished basic training, he came home on leave long enough to get married. When he came home from the war they had two kids, first my uncle and then my mother.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:38 pm to SaintlyTiger88
My parents grew up in Kentwood, LA. Both of their parents went to the same church since before they were born, so they pretty much met as babies at that church. My mom still has a picture framed of them when dad was 3 sitting next to my mom at age two, on the church steps that they would get married in 16 years later. Greenlaw Baptist Church in Kentwood. They were married 49 years when Dad died.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:41 pm to SaintlyTiger88
High School Freshman in 1938
Graduated together in 1942, he was 15
He went to Junior College, eventually went to Officer Training School at VMI in ‘44
She (no pics) went into a Navy nurse program at Johns Hopkins
After he came back from Okinawa & occupying Japan, married in ‘47
Graduated together in 1942, he was 15
He went to Junior College, eventually went to Officer Training School at VMI in ‘44
She (no pics) went into a Navy nurse program at Johns Hopkins
After he came back from Okinawa & occupying Japan, married in ‘47
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:42 pm to Iowatiger209
You know it's always really nice to hear these romantic stories kind of like when some of y'all talk about the closeness you had with a grandfather or uncle it's just completely foreign to me that is not at all the kind of childhood that I had but it's nice to hear that those things exist 
thanks for sharing
thanks for sharingPosted on 8/30/24 at 10:48 pm to OWLFAN86
Thanks. Yeah, I never got tired of hearing them talk about that, and especially showing off that picture to people that didn’t know their history. My dad’s last 15 years or so were pure torture for him after a bad wreck my senior year if high school left him with terrible back pain and dependency on pain meds that wrecked his health and mentally turned him into somebody I hated to be around and hated for my kids to be around. But my dear sweet mom never wavered in her devotion to him and cared for him to the very end.
I’m sorry you may not have had a closeness in your family. I am glad I could share and that you appreciated my…..and hope I didn’t crap all over your nice sentiment…..lol.
I’m sorry you may not have had a closeness in your family. I am glad I could share and that you appreciated my…..and hope I didn’t crap all over your nice sentiment…..lol.
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:53 pm to Iowatiger209
no,, Every real story has joy and pain happiness and heartbreak that's what makes it real
And thank you for sharing that about your dad my last year's aren't my happiest years and I empathize with your father II worry that I use too much medication as I'm struggling with all of it,,, its life knowing the we all go through it is a good reminder
I get upset with myself for being a burden to others my shame manifests itself as anger
I can do something about that
And thank you for sharing that about your dad my last year's aren't my happiest years and I empathize with your father II worry that I use too much medication as I'm struggling with all of it,,, its life knowing the we all go through it is a good reminder
I get upset with myself for being a burden to others my shame manifests itself as anger
I can do something about that
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