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| Little Sherry Candy Lane holding onto something special |
Grandpa Grover married Betty June McVicker. Betty June had been born the second child to Glenn (also called Ben) and Pearl Wilson in West Virginia, but Pearl and Betty June moved to Skidway Lake, Michigan with Charles McVicker in the 1930's. Back then Betty's big sister Louise Wilson stayed in West Virginia with her grandparents Elias and Ida Mae Fox. And Pearl remarried to Charles McVicker. Charles McVicker was whom Betty June knew as her father because they'd spent all her childhood years there in a cottage at Skidway Lake. And then when Betty June was in high school, Charles McVicker passed away. He had a heart attack while he was working in the oil fields so his girls, Pearl and Betty June came to another crossroads in their lives.
Betty June was in love with Grover Candy and Grover Candy felt the same.
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| Grover Candy and Betty McVicker |
They were high school sweethearts!
We have this photograph of Betty June ready to go somewhere with Grover...that's the cottage at Skidway Lake behind her.
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| Betty June McVicker |
And pretty soon they got married....
Groom's Name: Grover Candy
Birth date: 1924
Birthplace: Clio, Michigan
Age: 22
Bride's Name: Betty McVicker
Birth Date: 1927
Birthplace: Marion, West Virginia
Age: 19
Marriage Date: 15 DECEMBER 1946
Place of Marriage: Prescott, Michigan
Groom's Parents: John E. Candy & Laura Robinson
Bride's Parents: Charles R. McVicker & Pearl Fox
....and started making their own family.
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| Grover Candy |
First came Johnny Ross and then came Sherry Lynn.
Grandpa Grover stayed in school while Betty spent more of her day time both with the babies and other moms in West Branch.
And nowadays we can visit Grandpa Grover's High School ONLINE! Here's a link to some memory pages of his class.
Sometimes Betty dressed up fancy to go participate in her friends' weddings...
But, for the most part, life on the farm with Pearl and Jesse was more "down home" than dressy. And the young family was very busy with chores and school work and sports and protecting those babies in the big land. Pearl and Jesse set the young couple up in a little house on their farm.
Six years before Granpa Grover graduated from high school, there was a military strike by the Japanese Navy on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
After high school Grandpa Grover went into the military.
He got sent away for training and so the few times he visited became very important. As did photographs.
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| Betty June Candy and Grover's daughter Sherry Lynn Candy |
The most worn out page in Betty's Prayer Book is the "Battle Hymn."
"Increase my courage, Lord:
I'll bear the toil, endure the pain...
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown...."
