WE WERE MARRIED ON NOVEMBER 24, 1938 (THANKSGIVING DAY)
OUR WEDDING (Berniece) I first realized I was in love with him, as soon as I looked into those blue eyes. I was baptized the day before we got married. I became a Catholic the day before we got married. I took instructions from the priest at Little Flower Church. When we got married, he gave me a prayer book which I still have. Our wedding day was real cold day. My sister Dorothy was my bridesmaid and Leonard Kruse was the best man. Aunt Crescent took us to breakfast, but when we got out of church, Daddy's cousin, Louis Hillmeyer filled the back of our car full of firewood, to tease us. (Daddy had a 1933 black ford). Then we went to Luxella to the dance that night. OUR HONEYMOON (Berniece) Gerard took us to get our picture taken and then he rented us a motel (Hamilton Hotel). The back part of it was the SanAntone river and our room faced the river. When we got there that night, he must of had 5 pounds of rice in our bed. Daddy and I just took the sheet and emptied it all out on the floor. The day after we were married, we were supposed to go to Houston, but the windmill broke down. So daddy helped grandpa Kruse fix the windmill. That night we spent the night with Tony and Marie Ott. We left for Houston on Saturday morning and stayed there for a week. Daddy looked for a job there. I guess it would have changed our lives if Daddy had found one. I had found one at a cafe as a waitress. Daddy wanted to try something different (other than farming). This was right after 'The Depression', and it was hard finding a job. Especially for a bunch of country kids like us that didn't know anything. So we went back to farming.
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