Our Family
Increases
I didn’t get to see Audrey until the next fall. Elliott, Melanie, and Audrey came to visit
us in Cedar Rapids, and we all drove to Abilene for the ACU Homecoming. From there we drove on to Nashville, where
Elliott and Melanie were finally able to have a formal wedding ceremony. After all the celebrating, we started home,
dropping Elliott, Melanie, and Audrey off in St. Louis.
After completing their first tour of duty in Germany, they
moved to El Paso where Elliott was stationed at Fort Bliss. From there they went to Fort Hood, and in
July of 1989, another person arrived to bless our family – Mr. Hunter Laurence
Bales.
It was also during that year that Ann’s Aunt Lucy passed
away. She and Jim went to Waco for the
funeral. Before they returned home
Hunter was born. As things turned out, the two grandmothers –
Nancy Jennings, and Ann were at Elliott and Melanie’s home when awaiting the
birth of the baby. Melanie and Elliott
wanted the time of Hunter’s birth to be a special time for the two of them, so
Ann and Nancy stayed at Elliott’s house with Audrey while Elliott and Melanie
took care of business at the hospital.
Ann says they almost wore a hole in the floor pacing back
and forth, but the big moment did arrive, and there was great joy in the Bales
home. I was a little impatient
myself. I couldn’t wait for the call, so
I kept bugging them throughout the day with long distance call. That was pre-email and pre-cell phone, so the
old fashioned telephone on the wall was our only means of communication.
A whole new generation of Bales was formed in the eighties. Our family increased and our lives were
blessed.
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