WHEATLAND — What began as a Valentine’s Day story about what makes a 66-year marriage work ended producing a variety of information.
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WHEATLAND — What began as a Valentine’s Day story about what makes a 66-year marriage work ended producing a variety of information.
Bob Noyce and Joyce Clipperton met when Joyce came out to work for her great uncle at the American Sunday School Union.
“I was just a teenager (Bob was five years older), but I sure thought that guy sitting behind me in Sunday school was handsome,” she said. “I was a farm girl from a family of 11 kids and hadn’t seen much. I went to country school and only wore shoes when it got cold or to Sunday school. Bob’s father was a highly respected minister for the American Sunday School Union.”
Bob was still in high school when he got drafted. Wyoming didn’t have enough men to fill its quota so boys were hurriedly graduated and sent off to World War II. When he returned from Europe, Bob went to LeTourneau Technical Institute. On a trip home for summer vacation he met Joyce.