Beverly Luedecking:  

I worked for S.W.Frankford Associates until I got married on Oct. 11, 1965. Then 14 months and 1 day later I got a divorce Dec. 12, 1966. I left Michigan to get away from it all. I ended up in Missouri working as a waitress in the restaurant next to a bus station. The bus went to the Army base Fort Leonard Wood. I met and fell in love with Lue and we were married Feb. 3, 1967 in Waynesville, Missouri. Lue was stationed there at the time. We moved to Mich. after his discharge in Nov. 1967. He served 6 years in the Army as a Engineer and floating bridge instructor. His mom lived in Richland on a farm, and his dad lived in Kalamazoo. He drove for Associated Truck Lines. We stayed in Richland til 1971 then moved to Florida. Our son Jim was born 1972 in Orlando, while Lue was making the paint for Disney World. Lue's step dad died in 1973, we came back for the funeral ended up staying here. Jobs were hard to find on the west side of the State at that time so we moved to Oxford. There we managed a horse ranch and riding stable for 2 years. We had riders from all over including Canada come there to ride 320 acres and 100 head of horses. When I got pregnant with our second son the doctor advised me it was a choice between our son and the horses so we would have to leave the ranch and move. Lue got a job with Chrysler, we moved to Detroit. While Lue was working for Chrysler Corp. we had 3 more children, 1 boy and 2 girls, Larry 1974, Sandy 1976, and Jerri 1977 she was named after the guy who notified me of Lue's motorcycle accident on his way to work he had right of way and a lady made a left in front of him at the intersection where there was a gas station on each corner and plenty of witnesses in Detroit. When Lue recovered from his motorcycle accident we moved to Allegan in 1978 and have been here ever since. I worked at the elementary school for 8 years, as playground and lunchroom supervisor, also teachers aide. I opened the Allegan branch of MTS, also looked over the relocation and remodeling of its current building in Allegan, was there for 8 years til it changed owners. I did data entry and secretarial work for PCI for 3 yrs, until they downsized, then I was at Little Caesars both the Allegan and Plainwell stores for 8 yrs while taking care of four of our grand kids. When I received my certificate to become a manager of any Little Caesars store I left, with the option to come back if I didn't like the convenience store. I was the manager for 4 and a half years before I retired in August of 2008 after my husbands 2nd motorcycle accident. Our son Jim was killed in a car accident Jan. 1993, 14 months later Mar. 27,1994 our house burned, we lost everything but everyone survi...Expand for more