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January 23rd, 1973, Eric William Marchant was born in Oregon City, Oregon. William was after Frank’s roommate, Bill. My water broke and I hastily made preparations to get to the hospital.

A year later Michelle Pauline was born. The doctor said that he thought the baby would be a boy. We had the name Michael Paul picked out. When our baby was a girl we decided to conveniently name her Michelle Pauline.

With babies a year apart life was extremely busy. All my energies were spent in changing diapers, washing clothes, warming bottles and playing with, cuddling and holding my babies.

My husband worked for ADP in Northeast Portland. We lived in an apartment at the first of our marriage and moved to a three bedroom rental home when I knew I was having my second child.

In order for Frank to play basketball for George Stewart’s ward team we needed to move into his ward. We moved to a townhouse apartment. One day I came into the living room and found Eric, eighteen months old, sitting on Michelle’s head. I learned then that I could not leave them alone for one minute. Aside from the head incident Eric and Michelle were happy playmates. They were good helpers and even conspired to get into mischief together. I have a feeling that Eric, the older of the two, was the primary instigator.

In 1975 we bought our first home in Clackamas, Oregon. It was not new but had a beautiful landscaped yard with a garden area. That year we planted a good sized garden. A memorable moment was a corn feed one hot summer evening.