“After a couple of years in sunny California, I moved back to Rupert. I fed sheep that winter and worked on a spud sorter. Then I worked for Bill Hunter farming for two years. I met Beatrice about that time. We were married on her birthday, July 28, 1925. Beatrice was 20 and had just finished high school. I was nearly 24. We were married at her mother’s house by her bishop. Her mother and brother-in-law cooked us a nice wedding dinner. Beatrice had been living with her mother, who was a widow, and her younger brothers Don and Vern and her younger sister Madge. Her dad had been killed in a runaway team accident when she was just sixteen.
“We rented a house in Rupert near Beatrice’s mother’s house and then in the spring of 1926 we rented Mr. Calderhead’s farm just a mile or so away. We had sold our Model T Ford as we needed the money, so we walked back and forth to town. Mr. Calderhead was a school teacher in Rupert. He had moved back to Indiana and asked me to run his farm for him.
“I was lucky at cards and soon after we were married I won $30.00 in a poker game. I gave it to Beatrice so she could buy a blue coat with a fur collar which she had on layaway at J. C. Penneys.”
-John Joseph Straubhaar
Excerpt from Straubhaar Family History, July 1990
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