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They took the week-end off and spent their first night together in a hotel in Lafayette. In that culture and in those hard times, no one ever thought of spending money foolishly on a big wedding. When money was spent, it was more wisely used for furniture and accessories for the new home. My Dad was farming some acreage near Crawfordsville, Indiana that also had a farmhouse to rent, and that was their first home. They bought furniture for the living-room that they still had after I was grown (which I always hated, even when it was slip-covered.) My Grandmother made certain that my mother had everything that she was going to need in that kitchen. There was even a first edition Good Housekeeping cookbook in which she wrote years later "This was my first cookbook and I made many good things out of it that first year we were married."
This was in April and my Mom had a few weeks of school teaching to finish out her contract. The first Monday after the wedding, after school, she rode the school bus to the first crossroads near their farm house The neighboring farmer saw her walking down the road past his farmhouse in her pretty woolen coat and stylish cloche hat, in heels and hose and he said to his wife.
"That pretty young thing will never last."
Actually, she wasn't that young. Both she and my Dad were 28 years old when they were married, and she really did last more than half a century. I was born l0 months later and she never taught school again.
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| Rhoda Lou Simmons Born February 23, 1926 |
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