Love Stories: Couple settle down after life spent on the move - The Spokesman Review
The first time John Wilkens saw his future bride, Edith had the mumps. He caught a glimpse of her on the staircase when he came to came to see his sister who was friends with Edith’s sister. The mumps didn’t put him off, and Edith liked what she saw, too. “My sister said, ‘If I was younger, I’d go for that Johnny guy,’ ” Edith recalled, laughing. However, they didn’t start dating until they both were attending Washington Adventist University in Maryland. “He picked me up off the street,” Edith said. She and a friend were walking when John and his friend pulled up alongside them. “I was chatting with a fellow and I saw Edith. “I found out he was her most recent boyfriend, and he didn’t know they were broken up,” John said. In Edith’s version the fellow “most certainly knew we were broken up. ”. Still, she was mortified at seeing her current and former beaus together and John had to hustle to catch up with her. John to help at the family farm in Delaware and Edith to work in Washington, D. C. “We saw each other every other weekend,” she said. On one of those dates, John proposed in his 1949 Packard and Edith accepted. A son, Barry, arrived in 1953, followed by Keith in 1955. By the time his second son was born, John was very ill. Source: www.spokesman.com
