Since we did not have a car, my Mama took us on our honeymoon. We had decided to rent a motel room in Kirbyville where no one knew us.

On the way into town, we became very hungry and stopped at a restaurant to eat. Pat, a girl I grew up with, told the restaurant owner it was our wedding day and got us free lunches as a wedding present.

While we were eating, several carloads of our friends from Beaumont stopped to wish us well. They were on their way to the Christening of Rayborn Dam by Linden Johnson and saw the decorated VW. They figured it was Al and I. So much for no one knowing where we were.

When we got to the motel, it was so dirty and smelly we decided to look elsewhere. Mama drove up and down the back streets of Kirbyville looking for a for rent sign. We spotted one in front of a trailer and stopped. The lady said she had just rented it.

On the way back to the car, she yelled, "Did you two just get married?" We said yes and she took us around back of her house. Her son, who was in Vietnam, had a private room with private entrance and private bath on the back of their house. She rented it to us for a week for $35.00 room and board.

She and her husband were really nice people. We watched Billy Graham preach a sermon on Sex with them on our wedding night. They loaned us their car when we wanted to go into town and threw us a fish fry at their camp on Dam "B" the last day of our honeymoon. Al and I couldn't have had a better honeymoon. The day we left to go home, we found out that she was the gossip columnist for the Beaumont Enterprise. She was nice though - she did not tell anyone where we had stayed until after we left.

My Mom picked us up on Friday and took us to her house. The next day, we put Al on a train to North Chicago, Ill. We had a week together; then, separated for a month while Al searched for an apartment.

1 Cor 7:3-5 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Background pictures taken by Al & Fran Kirbyville Texas & Dam B June 1965