In 1945, Wayne and Leota met at a dance and three months later they were married. She was 19 and he was 24. World War II was coming to a close, and many couples were marrying and starting families. He had come home from the service early because of a back injury, and she was living with her parents and working as a telephone operator. Dances were the main form of entertainment and activity for young adults in those days. Leota remembered dancing with Wayne four years earlier when she was only 14. He didn't remember meeting the scrawny teenager then. But as he danced with her again when she was all grown up, he told her that he was going to marry her. And so he did.
Wayne worked as a truck driver, auto mechanic, town marshal, school bus driver, and other odd jobs in the early years to put food on the table. Leota was a homemaker and stay-at-home mom to their new baby.
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