On Saturday, June 17, 1950, Dale, Stanley, and Dalene drove from Muscatine to Alexis, Illinois, to pick up Dale’s Aunt Elsie Matheny, her daughter Dorotha, and granddaughter Sandra. After lunch back in Muscatine, he and Dalene drove them to Osceola. He wrote, “I milked the cow after supper. Dalene and I stayed all night at the folks.” That was the farm home of Jettie and Williams Gardner, four miles east of Osceola on U.S. Highway 34, below:
