Joe and I met when a group of young people gathered near the Ukrainian Hall in the East End. We have known each other since I was thirteen and he was sixteen. When we got a little older we started going together. Then when I was seventeen he dropped me for another girl. I joined the Royal Canadian Air Force for a three year term. During that time they broke up and she joined the air force.

When I was stationed in Calgary I came home for a leave. I went to visit a mutual friend of ours, and unbeknownst to me she had invited Joe also. Needless to say we got back together again.  Joe and I did get married and were married for fifty-three years. He was a very wonderful man and I miss him very much.