It All Started in 1950
Woman in the Middle | October 29, 2012Family stories are so great and I think we all love the ones about how our parents met in particular. I am lucky that my story about my parents meeting for the first time also included my mom’s sister, Pat, and my Dad’s Navy buddy, Ken. This story today in in honor of my Uncle Ken, who passed away last week at the age of 83. He was a great guy!
Way back in 1950 two sisters were living in Memphis Tennessee, having moved there from their home in a little rural town in Arkansas. Another young woman, with the melodious name of Katie Chanell (pronounced like Chanel, the perfume) asked if they would like to go on a blind date with two Navy men she knew. What the heck, they decided and said yes. As they walked up to the two men in their Navy uniforms the younger sister, Pat, saw that one of the men wore glasses. Pat reminded her older sister Nell that she didn’t like men who wore glasses. So Nell knew that the nice looking young man with glasses would be her date that night. Pat got her wish and the cute young man without glasses was her date.
A few months later Pat eloped with her Navy man, Ken. In September of that year Nell married her Navy man, Don. And the rest, as they say, is history! That must have been one fun double date!
So I hope Uncle Ken is having a chance to join my Aunt Pat, and my mom and dad up in heaven on another double date.
Uncles are great well some of them are I had a favourite uncle “Uncle John” and some that I didn’t like that much, Uncle John passed away many years ago he was married to my Aunty Pat, I am sure your Uncle Ken had a long and wonderful life…………………
How sweet! I love those kinds of stories! My parents also eloped. My dad asked my mom one day and they eloped the next. They were married for 42 years before my mom passed away. Not too many till death do we part these days.
Wow, your parents moved fast!
Thank you for that. I never knew that story.
You never heard about the double blind date? What I always thought was funny is by the time I heard about it my dad had contacts (and no glasses) and Uncle Ken was wearing glasses. The simple irony stuck my young brain as very funny!