Monday, February 5, 2024
On behalf of my family, Kathy, Michelle, and myself I would like to pass on my deepest condolences on the passing of our good and life-long friend Betty. To her children, David and Patricia and their families and to Luke, John and Susan and their families Betty was a loving and caring lady who enjoyed life to the fullest and will be sadly missed. May she rest in peace. Now for a couple of funny stories, first one about FRANK. FRANK and I met in 1962 when I was transferred from the first battalian Black Watch to the second Black Watch in Werl Germany shortly after arriving I started to play soccer for battalion team and that’s where FRANK and I became good friends. Unbeknownst to us our wives, Marilyn, and Betty went to the same school together in Orville. In 1964 I got married to my wife Marilyn, and of course those days nobody had any money but I had a car. Frank’s car was getting a little old and he needed a newer one and I needed money to get a suit each for me and my soon to be wife. So we made a deal that he would buy my car give me cash upfront so I could do what I had to do and after the wedding he would get the car. Our wedding went well and my in-laws, who live in a PMQ (personal married quarters) gave us their place for our honeymoon. After the wedding, Marilyn went back to the PMQ had a fine evening, but the next morning at 9 o’clock, FRANK was knocking at the door saying, give me the keys to my new car The honeymoon is over.
Next funny story about Betty in the early 80s. Frank and I each bought a caravan and we decided to do the back roads of Vancouver Island which we did and it was a great trip. We had a lot of fun took two weeks but anyway our first night out Betty had some windchimes that we didn’t know anything about that attached somehow to the back of our caravan, and of course, when we went to bed that night, we got a little frisky you might say and the next morning Betty was all giggles and smiles, saying we know what you did last night haha.
