Albert and Goldia Rueckert Courtship
Grandpa worked for S. H. Kress for over 25 years In fact he got his gold watch in December and
then the pink slip because the store was closing in January the next year.
His job was to be the head of the men that stocked the
counters on the floor.
Each counter in the store was formed in a circular way so
that the clerk was in the middle with the cash register and each counter was
for a different group of merchandise.
Like my counter was the seeds to be planted of flowers and
vegetables. The overstock was under the
counter so we had to keep the counters stocked from the overstock. Albert brought the overstock up as we ordered it from the basement and we
would put it under the counter and keep stocking the top as needed. Each day we would order what we needed and
the stock men would bring it up.
One day Albert
brought my seeds to sell and he found a 5 dollar bill on the counter. He told me that he was going to keep it
because the department heads just kept it.
I was upset because it was on my counter so it should be mine. We comprised on him telling me that he would
spend it on me if I would go on a date with him. I said yes and we starting dating. This was about in May and we dated until a
date that we had on the 24th of July.
But alas, Albert had appendicitis in July and was in the hospital and could
not keep the date. I finally gave in to
the pressure from home to not date a man so much older than i. So I turned him down when he got better. He always told me that it was because he was
not a whole man any longer.
The next year in May, Albert decided that he needed to get
serious about marriage and he made a list of the girls that he wanted to
date. I was on the top of the list. By this time I was going to school at Henagar
School of Business and working part time running an elevator in the Felt
Building. He looked me up and we
starting dating again. This time we got
very serious and were engaged in a couple weeks.
We went on a date to an outdoor show in the Orem
vicinity. On the way home we stopped for
a bite to eat and when we got out another car had parked behind us. But Albert saw a open field in front of us
and decided to turn around there. Alas
it had a cement culvert in the field for irrigation. We landed into the ditch and had to have
someone come to pull us out. He didn't
have any money but I always carried a little and he used it to call the
wrecker. Meanwhile I stayed in the car
and got to thinking and decided that I did love him. We went home and without knowing about the
other one we both prayed about it and got the same answer to marry each
other.
7 years later I got my patracial blessing and it said that
he had promised before this life to marry me.
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