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• Love Story: Her comic books won him over

  May 2, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page V5 It wasn’t her eyes or her smile that captured his heart – it was her comic books. Sixty years ago, Laurie and Sheri Zapf met in the third grade in … 3

• Love Story: Marriage marked by adventure

  March 28, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page S1 It was the car she noticed first. While enjoying a soda with her mother at Halpin’s Drug Store in Spokane Valley, Maggie Moore watched a sleek, black 1947 Buick Super …

• Love Story: Sharpshooting city girl right at home on farm

  February 21, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page S5 For more than 60 years, Ralph and Geraldine “Gerry” Reifenberger have made their home in Fairfield amid the rolling hills of the Palouse. “I married a city girl and transplanted …

• Love Story: Blind date really opened couple’s eyes

  February 7, 2013 in Washington Voices on Page V1 When Bill and Irene Zimmer met on a blind date, they already had a lot in common. Bill, a senior at Gonzaga University at the time, had grown up on …

• Love Story: Adventures through military formed strong bond, family

  December 27, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 When you hear about a boy from the Colville Indian Reservation who meets a girl from Kansas City, in Japan of all places, you know you’re in for an interesting … 1

• Ring confusion adds twist to courtship

  December 6, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V1 Her white nurse’s uniform caught his eye. “Those sexy white shoes!” he recalled, grinning. Then he noticed her slender legs and shapely ankles. “I could marry those legs,” he thought. …

• It took a few decades, but classmates meet, hit it off

  November 22, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V1 They walked down the same halls at West Valley High School – had some of the same teachers, knew the same people, and graduated together in the class of 1969. … 2

• First meeting at ages 12, 14 led to marriage

  September 13, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V5 Steve Leaf has never forgotten his first sight of Dolores “Doe”, who later became his wife. She’d been hit by a car and was confined to a hospital bed with …

• Blind date, ball game brought them together

  May 3, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 Patricia “Peacha” McFaul first glimpsed her future husband on a basketball court in January 1951. This comes as no surprise to those who know lifelong athlete Ted McFaul. A mutual …

• Picken travels world with kids after death of spouse

  April 12, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S1 After spending a year and a half traveling the world, Dawn Picken is back in her Spokane house, and her two kids are back in their old school. Together, the …

• Couple sharing dance of life

  April 12, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V3 They danced together. They laughed together.

• Love Story: Van Inwegens met at GU orientation

  February 16, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S4 Patrick Van Inwegen will never forget his first day of school at Gonzaga University in 1992. He enjoyed the excitement of exploring the campus, meeting his professors and making new … 1

• Hard times strengthened couple’s bond

  February 9, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page V4 Not all love stories have fairly tale beginnings, no matter how happy the ending may be. When John and Vickie Hershey met, she was still married to her first husband. …

• Love Story: Diluzios married after he left Navy

  January 19, 2012 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Almost 70 years ago, Constance Disotell saw a handsome young sailor with a shock of wavy black hair slide into a booth at a Hillyard ice cream parlor where her … 1

• Couple’s feelings lasted through war

  December 22, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V1 Wilson Conaway didn’t care for high school in Youngstown, Ohio. “It was 1942,” he recalled. “The war was on. There were a lot of flags waving, and I wanted to …

• Couple stays ‘footloose and fancy free’ to keep fun times coming

  November 17, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Wayne Best is clear about who is to blame for a union that’s spanned 69 years. “It was all Clara’s fault that we met!” he said. From their north Spokane …

• Couple’s love no different now than when they were teens

  October 27, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Sometimes you get another chance to nab “the one that got away.” Wes Scott did. In 1949, his sister, Charlotte, introduced him to Shirley, her classmate at Colfax High School. … 1

• International union began on the Cheney farm

  October 13, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V5 Hog butchering might not be your idea of a great first date, but it certainly leaves a lasting impression. When Wayne Hull met a pretty girl named Karen at a …

• Carpool starts long romance for Curlew couple

  September 15, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V5 Cash-strapped college students often look for ways to stretch their meager resources. Tom McKay did. In 1940, while attending Eastern Washington University (then Cheney Normal School) he gave rides to …

• Love Story: Formal invitation blossomed into 65-year union

  August 25, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V6 Lynn Jackson came up with a unique way of asking a girl out while attending high school near Lansing, Mich., He had an old hand rotary press that he used …

• Marriage forbidden, couple started over

  August 4, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S8 Sometimes falling in love has painful consequences. For Jim and Andy CastroLang it meant giving up another lifelong love. The couple met in August 1981 at Blessed John XXIII University … 2

• Dishwashing started love cycle

  July 21, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V5 Love can make a person do unexpected things. For Rusty Clemons, it motivated him to wash dishes at his brother’s Colville restaurant. A pretty waitress named Marie had caught his …

• Love Story: Faith is key to couple’s bond

  June 30, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Rolland and Mary Farnsworth may have fallen in love quickly, but they didn’t marry in haste. In fact, their courtship spanned four years. They first saw each other in 1938 …

• Front Porch: Love stories drive effort to publish

  May 12, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V1 Writing a book is a lot like giving birth, except it takes a lot longer than nine months and nobody offers you an anesthetic. For the past 18 months, in …

• Man met his future wife on a blind date; they ended up together 64 years

  March 10, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page S8 One evening in the spring of 1943, Betty Ratzman received a phone call that changed her life. An 18-year-old college freshman she’d never met was on the line, and he …

• Love Stories: EWU schoolmates married 70 years ago

  February 24, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V5 Andy Anderson vividly remembers his first sight of his future bride, Teddi. Her mother taught at a country school near Ewan, Wash., and each weekday morning she drove past the …

• Love Story: Sixty years on, it’s still the little things

  January 6, 2011 in Washington Voices on Page V1 Bonnie Shaw first saw him in the hallway at Central Valley High School. Six decades later, her eyes still sparkle at the memory. Harvey Shaw, home on leave, had stopped … 1

• 70 years in love and still laughing

  October 7, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page S5 Dick and Audrey Bixby met at North Central High School, but Audrey had had her eye on Dick for quite a while. “He was tall and handsome,” she recalled. “My …

• Love Stories: She fell for a farmer after all

  September 2, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page N4 Like many young women, Melba Jeanne Yates fantasized about the man she’d one day marry. He’d be handsome of course, and a Christian, but one thing he would not be …

• Love amid challenges of Alzheimer’s disease

  July 29, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page V1 A former Navy Seal, he earned a master’s degree in education. And nine years ago, at age 63, still trim and fit, he found the love of his life. But … 2

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