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Monday, July 11, 2005

"You are the bows from which the arrows fly" part 3, Daniel

Donna Lee Entenman and Glenn E. Rye were married in the Congregational Church in Sioux Falls, S.D. on August 19, l955.
Angela Ann Rye was born on November 14,1956 in Hills, Minnesota
Randy Lee Rye was born on July 17, 1956 in Wor;thington Mn.
. The first year that we were married I taught at Roskrudge Junior high school in Tucson, Az.
Donns was the head cashier at a Safeway store. We moved to Hills because Donna's father, John was suffering from cancer. We then moved to Worthington to teach. During the Easther break in l958 I traveled to California to seek a teaching position. California was the only state at point in time that had junior colleges and we wanted access to these schools for our children.
Donna was 8 months pregnant with a child and Donna's Dr. told us to ger rid of the pickup triuck and get a big sized sedan so we became the owners of a 1954 Chrysler New Yorker, blue in color.We picked up a used two wheel covered trailer to put our books and personal belongings in for transport to the Golden state.
Going through Utah we noticed a wheel going by us. It was one of the wheels off the trailer. Our jack couldn't raise the trailer so we unloaded it, put on the wheel and went on our merry way.I did not have a job so the was the first task in hand as we lived in a motel in Cucamonga. I was then hired at Sierra Junior High School in Riverside ,California, the same school as our friends from Worthington, the Ottesons had found employment.
The doctors in Worthington had told Donna to beware of osteopaths that practice in California. Our neighbor lady in our duplex recommended her doctor. Naturally, it was an osteopath.We then decided we would go to the county hospital that was across Magnolia Avenue from our duplex. Someone escaped from the 8th floor mental ward and terorized the hospital so that option was out. Donna was quite perplexed so I went to the Lutheran Church and asked the pastor to send out some pregnant ladies.
One of these ladies was Betty Craig who was to become along with her family, our lifelong friends.She introduced Donna to her doctor. and everything seemed to fall into place. The church also sent out furniture as they dicovered that we were sitting on boxes. The excess furniture we gave to our firends, the Ottesons.
I got a job throwing hay bales but they were not regular bales but like everything else in California, supersized.
I lasted one day and didn,t go back to pick up a check because I didn't want to admit that I cxcouldn't take it.
I then got a job as a laborer on a crew that was building a golf course in Sunnymead
We then awaited the blessed event but that story will have to wait until tommorrw.

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