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About Me !
This is me !
Let me tell you a story about how I met my husband.
I met my husband at the Strand Theatre in Laurel, Miss.
in Oct. of 1948 where we both worked. He was
a projectionist, and I was cashier.
I almost didn't get the call from the Strand about the job.
My family had retired for the night and I had just reached
the top of the stairs when the phone started ringing down stairs.
I raced down and answered.
The girl on the other end ask me if I was still interested in a job.
I said yes and she told me to come in the next day and see the manager.
I went in and was hired for a job as cashier.
Those circumstances changed my life forever!
After a few days on the job
I noticed the cutest, nicest blonde guy I had ever seen.
I was shy and didn't really know how to go about getting to know him.
One day, another one of the projectionist came in the office
where I worked and I ask him who the blond guy was.
He told me he was R.L. Jenkins
(initials only)
and told me that he was his brother-in-law.
Sometime after that, a guy stopped by the cashiers cage and
wanted to know my name and phone number.
When I ask him who wanted to know,
He told me "The Blonde Guy."
I gave him the info he was asking for.
We started seeing each other and
would spend our lunch breaks together.
We had extensive lunch/dinner breaks and we would
take in the different shows at the theaters in town.
I often laugh and tell people we met in show business.
Of course after they know the story, they get a chuckle too.
I closed the box office at 10 pm and after doing a daily report,
my new boyfriend would walk me home.
In those days parents were very old fashioned and wouldn't let
girls do much dating un-chaperoned.
Becoming disenchanted with these arrangements,
R.L. Jenkins asked me to be his wife.
I said yes and on Dec. 29, 1948 we were married at the
Jones County Courthouse in Laurel Miss.
My boss, Ms. Bonny, gave us a local motel room for one night
as a wedding present and the other employees
gave us a wedding shower and we were fortunate to
get almost everything we needed in small things to start our married life.
At that moment I was the luckiest girl alive.
I had met my prince charming.
On May 4th,1950 our beautiful little blond haired, blue eyed baby girl was born.
Deborrah Lynne.
She was and always has been my pride and joy,
and the apple of her Dads eye.
It would be 8 years before my husband could convince me
to go through that again,
and on Nov. 1st 1958, All Saints Day,
our little son, Mark Alan, was born.
We are so proud of Mark. He's a great son!
There has been many changes in our lives since then.
In Feb. of 1965, we moved to Violet, Louisiana,
a suburb of New Orleans.
My hubby worked for a company in New Orleans.
After a while, my husband went to work for a major coffee company
in New Orleans East.
My only brother, Charles, worked there also.
In 1987, R.L. was offered the position of Chief of Police
for the City of Ellisville, Ms.
We moved back home to Mississippi, where he served as Chief of Police
until his retirement in February 2002.
See the page on law enforcement for "the rest of the story!"
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