Marriage and Family
    Around the first of November, 1952, my cousin Jessie introduced me to Martha Hubler from Allport, PA, and I soon found myself married. There was no interesting employment in Allport, so I took my new wife back to California and I worked full time for Shad.  We hauled hay and grain for 9 months, and cut firewood for three months in the winter.
      Near the end of the year, Martha and I found out that her father had terminal cancer.
We decided we should return home to Pennsylvania.  We could always return to California if we wanted to. We returned to PA with our first son, Dean. Mr. Hubler lived for about two years longer than expected. During 1954 and 1955 I worked in the saw mill and cut logs and pulpwood for Howard Hubler.

Firewood off the Mountain
     We never went back to California to live,  but we remained in contact with the Fishers and Samuels families. In 1985, a business trip took me to the west coast and I had an opportunity to visit both families.  While there, I took a week of vacation time and worked with long time friend Shad Samuels, cutting down oak trees and cutting firewood.  The wood was on a steep rocky mountainside, and Shad planned to move the wood to the road with his caterpillar tractor after I was gone. About a month later I received a letter from my friend Dixie Fisher informing me that Shad was killed when his tractor rolled over on him.  My guess is that he was killed while hauling the firewood off the mountain.