“During my senior year I met John Straubhaar and we went together until we were married on July 28, 1925 at Mother’s home with just our immediate families present. Ina and Ariel Bosworth were our attendants. My brother-in-law George Gable, MayBelle’s husband, baked our wedding cake at the café where he cooked. He and Mother cooked us a nice wedding dinner. I wore my graduation dress which was a peach colored silk and black satin slippers.Our first home was a furnished four room house three blocks from Mothers, which we rented for $10.00 per month. In the spring we rented our first farm from a school teacher, Mr. Calderhead. He sold the farm that fall and moved back East so we had to move again. We bought 20 acres with a small two room house on it-no barn, no well and no bathroom. We lived there about a year and sold the place. We then moved on to the Green Tree Ranch, a forty acre farm owned by Jerry Jones. The ranch was a mile north of Rupert. We lived there for eight years.”
-Beatrice Gardner Straubhaar
Excerpt from Straubhaar Family History, July 1990
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