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Chris, son number 2, was born December 7, 1960. It was a chore to get Shirley Pregnant. We tried it every day, even at the top of “Pikes Peak” at sunrise - the doctor took a look at my sperm count - ok there. She wanted a baby in the worst way - I guess it is an inborn thing with females. The time of delivery finally came on the evening of December 6th - I took her to Wesley (where I was born and my mother was born). I came home and Sally bounded over and she tried to convince me she was 18. Chris was born the next morning. Sally was our baby sitter during 1961 and the first half of 1962.
In April of 1962 I came home from work and a Sheriff’s deputy handed me divorce papers filed by Shirley. He allowed me to collect an armful of clothing before escorting me from the premises. I spent the night at mother’s house in Newton.
I had met Becky at Abe’s Club early in 1962. She and a friend named Shirley F.,who was a very pretty gal, were at Abe’s often. Becky and I became close since the other stags at the club were after pretty Shirley and I did'nt stand a chance since those guys were better dancers than I was and also more aggressive. So I settled for Becky. I spent three weeks at Newton at mother’s house, slipping Becky in the back way to spend the night with me. Finally I located an apartment on Stackman Drive in Wichita. It was a one room apartment with a pull down bed from the wall, and a small kitchen and shower. Becky had a 4 year old son and was separated from her husband. She spent a lot of nights there with me a I some at her place. It was on Stackman that I watched Ruby shoot Oswald in Dallas.
We put our money together and bought a place on Columbine Street. Boeing decided to send me to Seattle for six weeks to work on the electronic maintenance manuals on a special plane. I did'nt like Seattle, It seemed to me it always rained - and when you played golf you had to wear rubbers with spikes on them and always carry an umbrella and rain gear. While there, there was a 5.4 Richter scale earthquake and when the ceiling panels begin falling down I knew I was going to die. After three weeks there I got to come home for a weekend. Becky and I decided to get married on that weekend, April 5, 1965. We did. Then it was back to Seattle. They wanted me to transfer up there - no way!! After my six weeks and back in Wichita, I was trying to show her son, Doug, how to make a skate board turn, fell off and broke my leg. By 1966 I knew the marriage was a mistake. I thought she was having an affair with some Jim Walter Homes clients and she had a problem with her saliva connecting her upper and lower teeth when her mouth was open. I left and found a place on West 13th.
Standing: Hickman, Fitzpatrick, Lee, Hummel, Sloan, Gershin, Hadley, Sealey. Front row: Buck, Smith, Rogers, Greiweish, Mann
The apartments on West 13th were three stories high. From mine on the second floor I could see Tetan’s IGA store. That is where I went for my groceries. I always tried to find the cutest checkout girl to check me out. She was just barely 22 and really an attractive girl - Susie. The year was 1966. I invited her over to my apartment for coffee, just a block away, - but she was too shy to go that far, but she would meet me for a coffee at the drug store at the corner of the shopping center. We did that and the rest is history.
Jane Ann lived in the apartment complex with her husband and small daughter, about 4, up on the third floor. I would run into her when we were both taking our trash out and we would speak. One day she was at my door asking if she could come in because she said her husband had a gun and she was afraid of him. After holding her in my arms and consoling her with a kiss she left. From then on she was frequently at my door - and inside for a drink, always an orange juice and vodka. She kept telling me how her husband, George, would beat her and she had to get out of the apartment. I consoled her with sex and kisses - she liked being on top and was very fast in her action. Her visits were only 15 or 20 minutes long before she bolted out the door upstairs.
A very shy Susie finally came over to my apartment for coffee. And she agreed to a date to take her to Hutchinson to a club in the Holiday Inn there. When I picked her up, at the rear of the grocery store, she had on a big orange floppy hat and a dark dress and she looked just gorgeous with her dark hair and flashing eyes - it was love at first sight. At the club in Hutchinson, we were in a booth, she was so shy she hid her head behind me from the view of the other patrons - it was almost embarrassing for me. Soon she was coming over to the apartment on her evening break and I would have a hamburger and Pepsi waiting for her. She only had a half hour - but we made good use of the time with eating, getting her uniform, green dress, off, sex, and holding and kissing.
She told me she had been in Friendly Gables - a reform school for incorrigible girls - when she was 13 years old in 1957. At age 15 she married Bill Winters - the girls father - after going with him three months. She was 16 on January 1, 1961 when she had her first daughter - Wendy. She was 17 five days later on January 5. In 1963 she lost a baby girl in pregnancy. In 1964 daughter Tammy came along. In 1966 she lost a baby boy during pregnancy. She got through the 10th grade.
More than once Jane Ann would knock while Susie was there and I would have to tell her I was “busy.” In addition Becky would call and want to talk to try to get me to come back or at least to come over and take care of her sexual needs. There had been times where Jane Ann and I had sex in the afternoon and Susie in the evening and then a late trip to take care of Becky after Susie went back from her break.
Susie and her husband were separated and she and her two daughters lived in a small house on Flora St. She had two Doberman Pincher pups who about knocked you down when you came over. Soon I was spending the night with Susie at her place. Her divorce finally came through and she was asking about whether or not I was going to get one. Becky did'nt want one - but finally agreed when she was convinced that I was not coming back. Susie and I loved to go to the Lancer Club and hear a singer by the name of Sean Neal sing. He tried to “date” her, she told me and that cooled that relationship with Sean and me.
Born Sept 6, 1967
Lucyann, dad’s wife number 6, was probably his best wife. She was an import from Canada who worked as a costume change person at various Las Vegas show places. Where she and Ted met I have no knowledge, but they were married in the mid 60s and were married for over 20 years till dad died
in 1986. In the late 70s dad had a stroke and several heart attacks and she took care of him for the next 6 years. Finally he had to be put in a care home, but she was there for every meal and many hours more seeing that he got the best of care. She even changed care homes when she felt he was not getting the best of care. She talked fast with a French accent that made it difficult to understand her all the time. but she was definite in her love and caring ways for “My honey.”
Gail Thompson was the secretary of the supervisor I worked for while in Huntsville, Alabama working on a manual for Boeing (Boeing built the first stage of the rocket that put the boys on the moon) the Saturn V Space Craft. Loved the town, and Gail and I were a twosome from the moment I arrived
for the six week stay. She knew all the fun places to go - and loved to drink and smoke and make love. She made the stay there fun, fun, fun.
Susie and I often went to the clubs around town, and once to Salina, where Sean Neilson was singing. He was at the Grand Opening of The Towne House, at Broadway and Kellogg. We went and also there was Susie's sister, Sally and her girl friend. Sally had started following Sean around town - her husband Don worked nights at Channel 10 TV station. Don had had a vasectomy and Sally got pregnant around this time - in fact she was about to pop when she attended Susie's wedding to me in May of 1969. She named the boy Donnie - but I think his name should have been Sean. I took Sean with me to play golf at Crestview several times but I never quite trusted him - especially around my women.
Susie called me one night about three AM and wanted me to come over - one of her Doberman dogs was having pups.
This month, November, made love to Susie 12 times, Becky six times, one was a double dipper.
Bought new beds for Tammy and Wendy (Susie's girls - one 5 the other 7 years old), they had been sleeping on old "Trundle" beds - I felt sorry for them. Susie talks to brother - in - law lawyer Hal, about getting a divorce from husband Bill - her kids father who lived in Haysville.
Gave Susie a watch on her 25th birthday, January 5, 1969.
In January, Susie 14 times, Becky 4 times. Becky's and my divorce came on March 7, 1969. We had been married a total of 1434 days!
Susie and I decided to get married! Found a house on N. St Clair - a block from where Shirley and Chris live. It made it convenient for me to see Chris often because he could walk over any time he felt like it. Applied for GI loan and bought the house for $22,000. On May 6, Susie and I moved in. We were married there on May 10, 1969. Sean Neal (short for Neilson) was best man. Also there was Bill and Jane Teer(Susie's folks), Susie's sister Anita Lockett and husband Hal, Susie's sister Sally Davis and husband Don, Susie's sister Jo Jackel and husband John, Fred Jr. and Vicky, Chris, Tammy and Wendy, and Murl and Sara Green and Judge Corrigan.
Took boat to Lake Afton many times this summer. Skiied Susie and she pulled me.
Becky lived on Columbine - just 7 blocls away. It was hard for me to say "no" when she called me at work and ask me to come over to take care of her "needs." I had to back into her garage so I could make a quicker exit upon leaving, hopeing for less exposure if Susie were to pass by on a near-by street. Sometimes Becky and I would meet at her uncle's house for a "nooner."
As a member of the Chamber of Commerce's Military Affaries Committee I was invited to visit a Titian II missile site and go inside and see the missile, crew's quarters, and control center, Susie went along.
We had a Halloween party - the first of many to follow. Susie and I rented a Zoro and Witch costume for a total of $3.27. We had 30 in attendance including; the Schusters, Paulins, Bob Howell, Dee Hubbard, Mike and Joan Russell, Postlewait, Roger Wilsons, the Locketts, the Jackels, Don and Sally Davis, the Munkers, Freda and Larry Dilling, and Dick Cummings.
Sally Davis had her baby, Donnie, September 21.
Fred Jr. and Vickey were married November 1, 1969 in Haysville.
Sally (my Sally) is now married to a guy named Frazier Richards whom she met while working as a stewardess for United Airlines. She was in town December 2, 1969 and we had a beer and talked about old times. She had on a short, one piece, velvet dress with long sleeves. She looked so delicious and would I have loved to have gotten into her pants! But she was on a short leash.
On Chris' ninth birthday, December 7, I gave him his first set of golf clubs. When he was 6 I had made a short club for him and took him over to Sims Park Golf Course and we walked on at the middle of the 4th hole and he got his first taste of golf.
Went to Dee Hubbard's Christmas Party at his apartment complex's club house. Sean Neal sang; met Jim Dawson, Marlene (don't remember her maidan name), and Kay(don't remember her maidian name) - but both were some of Hubbards' playmates - and I was jealous that he could surround himself with all those beautiful creatures just because he had plenty of money! Susie was a knockout herself in her little short red Christmas dress!
So the decade of the 1960s slide by - the decade of our President being assassinated and his brother and Martin Luther King. After the divorce from Shirley in 1962 I joined Crestview Country Club for an entrance fee of $400 and $35 a month dues.
Played lots of golf with old Jaycee friend Stan Kraus at Crestview. Was asked to help out with bingo games at Crestview in October, 1962, the month I joined, and continued every Thursday night for 47 years and counting, as of November 2008.
While in the Jaycees in 1958 I started a poker group, originally to help me get elected as President of the Jaycees. The group mainly consisted of; Chisham, Jones, Willits, Kraus, Paulin, Buchannan and my self. Others who filled in were; Dodd, Barton, Johnson and occasionally, Balay. Nothing big - nickel, dime, quarter.
Spent the early years at 915 Stackman in a one room apartment - A small time with Becky on Columbine Street and then in an apartment on West 13 th to finish out the decade. The 60s were slow at Boeing. Really not enough work to keep busy all the time, but had to look busy - tough job. Shortly after going to Boeing I took their “Management Preparatory” classes after work. About 100 hours worth - but was never tapped to join the ranks of management - maybe because during the 50s I devoted so much time to the Jaycees - or maybe they thought I wasn’t management material.
The decade started out with a son, Chris, and splitting up with Shirley, and finishing up with falling in love with Susie the grocery store check - out girl.
Time to turn the page to the 1970s!
You can turn the page by going to:
http://lifeandtimesoffredhadley1970s.blogspot.com/
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