Various mutual friends. Then they were dating (in a group), and she thought he was just a crazy, nice guy until he told her one day that he'd been offered voice lessons (for singing) in New York. She realized that she might never see him again and fell crying into his arms. In 1942 he volunteered for the draft so that his brother could help my grandfather finish a house they were building and in 1944 they were married just before he was sent first to New Guinea and then to the Philipines. They were married six years and four kids before he was killed in a work accident. Mom never remarried; she died in 1981, thirty-one years after he did. We all figured that she stuck around to insure his last words were taken care of ("Take care of my kids") and it was time to spend eternity together.