SUNDAY MEMORIES
Judy Wil
While we were at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Fred had received orders to be assigned to Heidelberg, West Germany. We were so very excited by this assignment – getting to live in Germany again, and getting our girls to know Europe. An amazing prospect! So when the time came, Fred graduated from the school there in Kansas, and we made our way to Germany via Albuquerque, New Mexico (visiting my family), and King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (visiting Fred’s family).
I don’t have any pictures of any decorations in our apartment in Heidelberg for the first Christmas we were there. However, here are a few from 1981 and 1982.
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Unfortunately, our three-year tour was up, and we returned Stateside, to begin a new portion of our life in Virginia.
We purchased a house in a small community, Seaford, Virginia, just eight miles south of Yorktown, which is part of the Colonial Historic Triangle of Yorktown, Jamestown, and Williamsburg. Here’s a picture of our house:
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And since we’re talking Christmas and winter and SNOW…
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Oh yeah…we had SNOW!
Here are a few of the decorations that I did in that house for Christmas:
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After both our girls married, Fred and I decided it was time to look for our “forever” place, and we weren’t sure it was Virginia. While Fred’s parents were in San Antonio, Texas (and we LOVED that city), they would soon be moving to Washington state, and we knew we didn’t want to live in the northwest. My parents were both gone, so Albuquerque was not really in the running.
All of Fred’s siblings were “scattered” so to speak, but my brother, Bill and his wonderful wife, DiVoran, were in Florida – a state where both Fred and I had enjoyed living so many years ago. So we began looking to find a house in the Orlando area – which we did….kinda. We found a house in Kissimmee (kah-SIM-ee) that we thought would be our “forever” house, and moved there just before Thanksgiving of 1995.
Well, you know, there just is NOT snow in Florida – not very often anyway. And thank goodness for that!
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This is the only picture I have of Christmas decorations in that house: I know we had a tree up and all, but not much else.
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~~~~~~~~~~To Be Continued~~~~~~~~~~
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Judy is living in Central Florida with her retired U.S. Air Force husband of 50+ years. Born in Dallas, Texas, she grew up in the Southwestern United States.She met her husband at their church, where he was attending the university in her town. After college and seminary, he entered the Air Force, and their adventures began.They lived in eight of our United States, and spent six years in Europe, where their oldest daughter was born. She was a stay-at-home mom for many years .
Judy has always been involved with music, both playing the piano and singing. Always interested in exercise, she was an aerobic dancing instructor, as well as a piano teacher for many years, and continues to faithfully exercise at home.
After moving to Central Florida, she served as a church secretary for nearly nine years.Her main hobby at this point in time is scanning pictures and 35mm slides into the computer. She also enjoys scrapbooking.She and her husband have two married daughters and four grandchildren, including grandtwins as well as a great-grandson and a great-granddaughter. She and her husband enjoy the Disney parks as often as possible.