Bethel (from 9-14-10)

Like I told you my first wife was named Bethel. She was as sweet and as kind as a wife could be. I like to tell a story about how me and Bethel met that always miffed her up some. The story I told was this: we was both swimming at the Harper Lake Beach. I was changing from my wet bathing suit when I heard somebody come into the girl's side. Now the girl's side and the boy's side was separated by a piece of wall that did not go all the way to the ceiling or the floor. I bent over to look into the girl's side and me and Bethel rubbed noses. 

As you can figure this story wasn't true. We really knowed one another since we was in grade school, but I liked to fun around with Bethel. She was smarter than me, but who wadn't back then. I got most of my learning after I quit school, half way through the seventh grade. I saw better opportunity at the Neighbor Pantry, our grocery store, as a bag packer and delivery boy.

But this is about Bethel. We got married at the Harper Lake Baptist Church by Brother Ezra Crowder and was happy for more than ten years before Bethel got sick.

Tomorrow I'll talk about how Bethel and me had three children.