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DN: How did you meet Norma?

EH: [Laughs] At the dance out at the Kingston Grange. Well, this friend of mine that I grew up with on Bainbridge, Norma was working at the navy yard, and he had, he had met her down at the navy yard. And so he was the one that introduced me to her, so then my sister was in the Waves, and she had a nice-looking girlfriend that she would bring home to the Island. My sister was stationed at Pier 91 in Seattle, and she would bring this girl home, so I introduced Jim to Lois, and they're man and wife, living over in Wenatchee, now.

DN: Playing Cupid for each other then, huh?

EH: [Laughs] I got even with him.

DN: [Laughs]

EH: And then when I retired, why, here we are here.

DN: Yeah, and this place is, is Norma's old family farm, right?

EH: Yeah, her grandfather's place.

DN: But you built this house, or had it built?

EH: We had it built, yes.

DN: And what year, you say? '63?

EH: '6-, we moved in here, we had to move in here July, June 14th of 1966. It wasn't finished, but we sold our other place, I came home one day from Keyport, and I think I'd worked on a Saturday, and I had this big sign, "For Sale." So I took it down on the highway and set it up there, and said something about which house it was. That was on Saturday, and it was sold on Tuesday. And she wanted to move in right away, and we had to find a place to go to. Well, we had got this place, we had to be out of there on June the 14th, so we moved in here. We had the kitchen done, upstairs, the bedrooms were done, the bathrooms were done, the bathroom in the basement was done, the bedroom in the basement was done, and the, we had a kind of a -- no, the kitchen was not done. 'Cause we put this kind of a pullman kitchen down in the basement. And we bivouacked down there and so forth, and then little by little, we got it all finished.

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