On Thursday, March 8, 1951, Dale and Dalene drove from Muscatine to Clarence, Iowa, with a co-worker for him to pick up his new Chevrolet. Dale and Dalene visited with Olive Olsgaard and her girls a little while, then drove back to Muscatine. Helen and Dale had been close friends of Orris and Olive Olsgaard in the late 1930s in Washington, DC.