Jane is a Widow

We decided to start looking for a house to purchase, we put our mobile home up for sale. It had a nice sized yard. Needless to say, looking for a home was stressful. We found a realtor named Faith Delk that helped us search for what we were looking for. It seemed like we looked everywhere, we finally found a brick home on Desoto Road. The couple who owned it was the same couple who ran the music store called Stonehenge Records on McGalliard Road. They were hippies for sure. They warned us about the son of the couple next door. We eventually saw what they were talking about. So in September 1979 we bought our first home.

Today would have been our 47th wedding anniversary. That day is forever etched in my mind. It was a sunny warm day. The day before I couldn’t quit sneezing, I was getting kind of worried that I would never quit. But I did. I remember our friend filling our car with feather pillows that had been cut open. For quite sometime we had feathers flying out of our car, haha. I was the happiest girl in the world on that day. I’m sorry that 38 years later I had to say goodbye to him. I thought we would be together forever. You should always appreciate those people in your life, love them no matter what cause one day they will be gone. Forget differences, accept them as they are.

I’m wishing and praying for recovery for my widowed friend Ed and high school friend Frankie. Frankie was so much fun in school. He was always smiling and making everyone happy. Get well soon Ed and Frankie!

My widowed friend Ed is battling cancer right now. They have told him that all they can do is try to control the cancer. His message to all of his friends is to be kind to everyone and be there for them. You never know when you will need that person. But sometimes family turns on you for no reason at all. But that’s ok cause they are hurting themselves more than you. There will come a time when you cant go back and do over. Since Troy passed I have learned a lot about people that I thought I knew but I really didn’t. I know them now unfortunately. Some people can really fool you. I think Ed’s advice shows what a kind, loving person he is. Too bad everyone isn’t like that. Sadly this world is so full of hateful people. Just love everyone even if they are different from you.

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.

My post about our friends who never made it out of their twenties caused more reflections of days gone by. Right after we married we bought a mobile home from Thomas Mobile Homes in Kokomo. That’s where Troy was working at the time. I was working at Muncie so we decided to set our home in Fairmount which was right in the middle. Down the street from where we lived was the cemetery where James Dean was buried. We stayed there till Troy got a job in New Castle, we then moved to Muncie.