COALVILLE

Here is one more photo and a close-up of Steve and Betty’s wedding day. This was taken at the home of the Kolacia family.

The newlyweds’ first home was a rented acreage southeast of Fort Dodge, near the gypsum mills where Steve worked.  The house did not have electricity or indoor plumbing.  There was a wood-burning cook stove and a pump for well water.

I asked my sister Pauline where the house was located.  She wrote, “They lived on an acreage that is now on the Coalville blacktop. The houses are gone and it is now part of the mills. I went to a country school there till we moved to Burnside. I went to school in Burnside until 4th grade when we moved to Clare.”