The beginning

Well, I guess we need to jump on the bandwagon of this family and update our life to all who care to read about it.  I don't know how to make this blog look like my son's and I like his format but I will learn how  so help me and that is that.  

I am not sure where to start.  48 years ago (1959) I was in nursing school in Charlotte, NC.  I was 19 years old and very much in love with my college sweetheart.  Since his first name is Francis and my first name is Frances we decide to start our blog as Fran & Fran.  He had gone back to the college where we met to retake a course he had failed to pass so that he would be through with Lees-McRae Junior College.  I was due to be in nursing school for three years and then we would get married, or so we thought.  Before I finished my freshman year we decided we could not wait for the nursing school's permission to marry.  Even then there were troubled war times that made me wonder if we would still have a world by the summer of 1961 (when the school would give permission for us to marry, and not before).  We decided to elope and keep it a secret. He joined the Army Reserve the day after we were married (April 1, 1960) in order to fulfill an acceptable military service required by our government.  Neither of us were happy about being involved in a war or the military.  He left for basic training in August and I stayed in school.