Students have little noticed immediately. It was Gene Voiland: tall, dark, handsome, and president of the freshman class.
"He was the nicest guy I've ever seen," he says with a wink in his eyes.
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Cay, without shame, did his best to answer them.
"I found out what clubs they belonged, and I joined the club, such as hiking club," said Cay Voiland. "I knew he was playing chess. I had never played chess in my life, but I learned everything."
The student managed to live near Voiland organized on one foot.
"We all piled into the back of a truck to climb the mountain to climb," said Kay. "I managed to sit next to him. I remember it was cold and he offered me his jacket. "
The other women on the campus of Seattle University has never had a chance.
Gene Voiland Cay, residents of the Holmstad, a retirement home in Batavia, began their life together, as many have done. They met at school and were inseparable. They planned to spend the rest of their lives together.
Then World War II changed everything. Like many young college, joined the genes of the service. He entered the Army Air Force and became a bomber pilot with the 384th Bomb Group, flying 32 missions.
The couple were even more closely by the many letters back and forth between Grafton Underwood, England, where Gene was stationed in Seattle and traveled. A special letter contained a proposal of marriage. The two made plans to marry when Gene returned from the war.
Some genes have their own plans.
"He arranged for his parents to my parents and me to dinner," said Key. "After the meal, took his brother, Joe a little box he had received from Gene. Was an engagement ring. Rescued had all the money to buy me a ring, I could not believe it. "
Key began to make plans for the upcoming wedding. Before the war, bridal gowns were often made of silk, because the feeling of softness and luxury of the fabric. But during the war, the family of silk wedding dresses and silk underwear were missing. Even silk stockings were not available. Young women are turning to silk stockings simulation through the development of the seams on the backs of their legs with an eyebrow pencil.
Since silk was a force five times that of steel, silk was used throughout the country for the manufacture of parachutes and other war-related items.
"When the war ended, I wrote to Gene and asked if I could send them to use wedding dress silk parachute," said Key.
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Gene Voiland and front passenger, was Calvin "Pete" Peterson, a parachute, which was in good shape and split. He sent home a precious substance Kay.
"I found a model of McCall and took silk and the model of a local dressmaker," he said. "She has a beautiful job."
When Gene came home, was January 1, 1946, are two objectives: to marry Cay and finished college. He enlisted as a junior at Seattle U, and set a wedding date for February 19.
"It was a Tuesday," said Gene. "We were at the fair at 8:15 clock in the morning married, because we were father (Gerald) Beezer wanted to get married. He also taught chemistry at the university. It was my favorite teacher and his teaching program, which was the only time I have had at his disposal. "
No matter what time of day they married. All that mattered was that they were together.
If Cay in the driveway was in a pretty dress, the wedding of one of its kind, saw the clothes single gene.
"I watched the beautiful girl inside the clothes," he said with a nod to his wife of 65 years.
Gene was a nuclear chemist with General Electric Hanford nuclear site. The couple lived in Richland, Washington, where they raised their 12 children. Like genes of the Argonne National Laboratories has been set, the family moved to Naperville. Another way to work, to the family of Morris, Illinois, was hired as the genes of General Electric, have to manage radioactive fuel rods in this country.
The dress was carefully removed to Ana, a pack of five girls in the Voiland, asked him to wear.
"I was delighted," said Key. "She looked beautiful in it." Ann Riley lives in Oregon.
The wedding dress out of the box again recently when the granddaughter Celeste Riley decided to take it. Greg Brennecka married last October in Kansas City and now lives in Tempe, Arizona
"I asked if he could take and I told him to do his own," said Key.
This is a simple wedding dress, handmade, a dress that is not only a symbol of love but also a symbol of honor. Tribute to a father and a mother who has a love of family, patriotism and love of God.
Three generations united by love, a bond stronger than the son of silk which together held the coveted wedding dress for 66 years.
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