This is a picture of my mother and Dave Thompson and that is me standing. This picture was taken at Dan and Michelle's wedding. Michelle was Dan's first wife and they had Daniel together. I don't know how I talked my mother into coming. It was very rare to see my mother outside of her apt.

Your dad and I were married 23 years before we got divorced. At the time you get divorced, you think that it will magically solve all your problems. Divorces rarely solve problems. Usually divorces make more problems.

Dave Thompson and I got married July 14, 1969 and he died September 3, 1994. We were married 25 years. Our best period was when we were managing the Harkey Apts.. We both liked doing that very much. Dave started having health problems. He was a smoker and also got Adult Onset Diabetes. The last few years of his life, he was tired a lot and eventually had very little strength. The doctors kept blaming everything on his Diabetes and smoking. We did not realize how sick he was. Little did we know that a fatal disease was taking over his body. He died of Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS). The disease wasn't diagonased until nearly the end.

Dave was in the Auburn Hospital on our 25th Wedding Anniversary. Diane brought us an Anniversary Card. Dave read it and then looked up at me and said "The last 25 years of my life have been the happiest." I will always remember that. (That day I did not know that he would be dead in two months.)

Dave was a very intelligent person. He was a Techinal Illustrator for Boeing for 17 years. Dave loved going to the Library. He would spend so much time there. He would bring home books I couldn't begin to comprehend.

Dave had been married once before to Rosemary. They had three children together. Brian, Laurlie and Bruce.

The other picture is of me on a Moped. One year while we were still managing the Harkey Apts., Dave and I went to Victoria on the ferry for the weekend. We rented Mopeds and rode all over. It was fun. I don't remember what month it was. It must have been summer because it was warm and sunny.