We were engaged in September 1956 and married that November. Our wedding service was unique in that Marty�s pastor, Pastor Blackley, gave a salvation message and my pastor, Pastor McIntosh, married us.

Our first apartment was a converted attic on 256 Ridge Street, Newark. It was so small that the refrigerator was in the hall. The living room, if you want to call it that, was half a room just big enough for a small couch and a small television. We washed our clothes at the laundry mat around the corner. Then brought them home to hang dry. We had to climb out our bedroom window and stand on the roof of the apartment below us to get to the clothesline. We lived there for six months.

Marty worked for General Electric and I now worked at the American Insurance Co. We each still attended our own churches because of responsibilities that we had. After we moved to Kearny, Marty and I started attending church together at Beulah Church (later called The First Evangelical Free Church of Kearny).

In 1957 we bought our first house at 173 Dukes Street in Kearny. The house was nice and right across the street from the West Hudson Park.

Marty worked as a wedding photographer on the weekends. I spent many nights helping him put beautiful wedding albums together. The ironic thing is that we, ourselves, have very bad wedding pictures. The photographers, Marty and my dad, were in the bridal party. So Marty�s friend had to take the pictures. He, unfortunately, had trouble focusing.