SPECIAL MOMENTS.......................

I am sure most marriages have their special moments, but even though we had lots of them, these two are really special
and seemed to mark the beginning and the end--the Alpha and Omega

As I mentioned before, we arrived back in Milwaukee after leaving Fort Lee and stealing an extra night of our very own in
Chicago, saying our luggage didn't make the connection. I guess we will never really know whether it did or not. We stayed
at the Palmer House in Chicago and had dinner and then a movie I can't remember the name of it but it was with Judy
Holiday and really funny. We knew once we got back home our time would be shared with family and friends and then
Wayne would go overseas to we don't know what nor for how long. Can you blame us? This was in June and we had been
married just over 2 months.

Moving on, it was chaos and total running around, and time was short. At one point, tho we were the only ones in my parent's
house and I walked into the living room and Wayne was on the telephone. Not that this was unusual, but the conversation
was different. He said We will meet you in an hour, will that work? I stuck around waiting to hear where we would be in
and hour and who we would meet up with. Wayne said "get ready, we are going to church and I am going to be baptized."
This was his (His) plan and I was so thankful. An answer to prayers. We arrived at Immanuel about 2 in the afternoon.
Just the three of us. Wayne, Pastor Meyer, and myself in that huge cathedral like church with the stained glass windows.
For added effect, the Children's Choir was in the balconey practising . We waited until they finished and Pastor Meyer
baptized my husband. What a beautiful moment. Special, I'd say so.

SPECIAL MOMENT #2

TIME: November, 1987 PLACE: Inter-Community Hospital

We had not been very faithful about attending church. Things always seemed to get in the way. Jobs, kids, not liking the
church we had been attending, sickness, but our hearts were faithful and as our life together seemed to be coming to a
close I suggested to Wayne that we have Rev Box come and give us Communion. Ray Box was more than happy to do this
for us and he asked his wife to join us. The 4 of us received the Lord's Supper together. After the Box's left I said to Wayne,
"thank you for doing that for me" He grabbed my hand and said "I love you, but I did it for ME" That was close to the
last clear moment we had. It was almost 9:10 pm for the last time.