The move to Muncie was a good one. We were closer to our relatives and I no longer had to drive a sizable distance to work. We had our mobile home moved to a trailer court on Burlington Drive, it was such a short drive to work for me. Troy had a longer drive of course since he was working in New Castle. That is where we lived during the blizzard of 1978. It was unbelievable how much snow we got, it was days before we could get anywhere. Troy slowly dug out our road in the trailer court and eventually we were able to walk to the Marsh grocery store that was at the corner of Macedonia and Burlington. A bright purple mobile home moved in next to us, needless to say we were ready to move on. We didn’t stay too long in the trailer court, we bought a piece of land and we eventually moved our trailer there. The address was 2020 N. Reserve, it was an ok neighborhood. One that would get us to where we wanted to be. Troy made a career change while we lived there, he started working at Colonial Baking Co as an electrician, etc. I remember he started out making $6.96 an hour, and that was really good money back then. I was making $2.30 an hour at Ball Corporation. It was like we hit the big time, haha. His drive was much closer and that was a plus. We would spend 17 years in Muncie before moving on.
Jane is a Widow 
The Blizzard of 78 hit Mi just as bad, Ford Rouge Complex where we built the Mustang was shut down for 3 days
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