10 16 2002 growing up on the farm

Mary Rochat

Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 4:41 AM

Subject: Fwd: 68 YEARS AGO

So. ..have women always precipitated the proposal...??? Roger

(PS Rich.. .my last 2 e mails to you have been rejected because your mailbox is overloaded!)

Arthur Sanford <irthalie®webtv.net> wrote:

Subject: 68 YEARS AGO

am digressing from my usual Saturday night "Growing up on the Farm" and sending a note about when Nathalie and I were both grown up. we had gotten acquainted when Mrs Riley had assigned us to do a class project together in speech class but since both were seeing another then nothing happened --except I wrote to my mother telling her about this assignment and adding wouldn't it be strange if Rhoads and Sanford got together in this generation (my grandmother's name was Rhodes when she married my grandfather---and though the two names were spelled differently they sounded alike) well a couple years went by and then somehow we got together at a school picnic and that started it. Well came October 12,1934 and the head of the Practical Work department in Northwestern Bible School had gotten a request from a Church in a place called Armstrong for a speaker for October 12,1934--and since I was a senior he asked me to take it and I was glad to and asked Nathalie to go with me. She was willing so we went - I guess I preached anyway they gave me 2 dollars for the gas--and after coming back to where she was working we were swinging in their swing in the back yard and she told me someone at Armstrong had asked her if she were my wife--of course she had said "no we were just friends' Then I asked her if she were willing to be my wife and she said yes WOW. I could hardly believe it and next morning EARLY called her to ask if she meant it. and SHE DID. then of course I had to write to her Father and Mother asking their permission to marry their daughter and they gave it --then at Thanksgiving vacation I got leave from Millers' cafeteria where I worked and she took leave from the Carpenter Home where she worked and we went to Glenburn N.D. to visit her home. at the railway station in Minot where we got off the train her dad was there to meet us and I remember that big voice and real hand shake" So this is our new son" so I felt welcome and have felt so ever since, have had a wonderful 68 years together Thank God for that night in Armstrong. next time will go back to growing up days. love to ya all me