Retired Sandy Bee Lynn met her husband, Glenn Lynn, at a summer meeting of a ski club that traveled to Port Clinton at a time when the only skiing possible was on the water.

Sandy was divorced and began her college life at age 30 as the mother of two children.

Sandy and Glenn were in the same ski club for about a year, but never went beyond a nodding acquaintance.

But something clicked in Port Clinton that summer. They married July 1, 1989. 

Since they belonged to a ski club, it seemed natural that they went skiing in the Tyrolian Alps of Austria the next year as a delayed honeymoon.

They celebrated their 25^th wedding anniversary this year.

Sandy, who tacked on 8 years of experience at the Orrville and Wadsworth libraries, lives in Doylestown with Glenn.

Both are in the New Horizons Band in Cuyahoga Falls, Sandy on viola with the winds and Glenn on saxaphone with the main band.

Sandy’s father, Henry Fuller, parachuted into France on D-Day. He was among 126 survivors of the 792 who jumped with the 502^nd on The Longest Day.

d

There’s an exhibit about Henry in the MAPS (Military Aircraft Preservation Museum) just off Akron/Canton Airport.  Henry and Arline Mitchell Fuller were Sandy’s parents.

Sandy told me about how she wound up with Glenn while we waited for Sunday’s New Horizons Christmas concert to begin in the John S. Knight Center in downtown Akron.

We were reacting to the story on this blog about June Persons checking out the guy bagging groceries and liked what she saw, and wound up married to former bag boy Ken Wright, the late BJ Composing retiree, for 58 years and living in Wadsworth. That led to Sandy’s story about her and Glenn.

As for my how-we-met story:

I was sports editor of the Williamson Daily News and founded the Midget Baseball League in Williamson and covered its games. When 11-year-old Larry Turkette hit a baseball that rolled into the outfield, and through the legs of a waiting outfielder, I wrote it up the next day as “a hard single.”

A week or two later, Larry hit a pitch over the head of an outfielder. From the stands came this taunt: “I suppose you call that a hard single.”

I looked into the stands and saw Larry’s older sister, Monnie Turkette, of Cinderella, West Virginia. I turned to someone near me on the third base side and said: “I know how to shut her up.”

We dated for two years and we married for 48 more years. I never did shut her up because I loved what she was saying for a half-century until her 2004 death.

We have three children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandsons because Monnie shouted her taunt.

What about YOU? How did you meet your spouse or live-in Significant Other?

Either click on No Comments at the end of this article, and leave the details of your first meeting, including full names, circumstances and how long you’ve been together and your hometown today. 

Or email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com 

Either way, I’ll use your How We Met story on this blog. If you want to add photos of you and your beloved, email them to John in jpeg format to the same email address.