Wedding Bells

When Mae and Fred got married, she was 21 years old and he was 23. "We married September 12, 1929 in Topeka, Kansas. The ceremony was in the pastor's study at a Congregational Church. Iris and Elmer Holm were our attendants."

After they were married, Mae and Fred lived in Omaha, Nebraska, mostly, although they also lived a short time in Falls City, NE, and a short time in Atchison, KS. Fred worked for Missouri Pacific Railroad for two year, and then was "bumped." He worked for the Y.M.C.A. as athletic secretary after that. Mae worked at Fleischmann's Yeast until she had their first child, Janice, in 1930. "I was in the hospital on our first anniversary," she wrote.