Published: June 20, 2008 10:27 pm            

Flynn 65th Anniversary

Margie and Charlie Flynn celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary June 21, 2008.

Like many of their generation, Margie F. French and Charlie L. Flynn married in the midst of World War II.

(The following quote is from “A Witness to D-Day” written by the Flynns only child, Ailsa Flynn Anderson, and published by the Corsicana Daily Sun in a special D-Day edition June 6, 1994.)

“Daddy and Mother married on June 21, 1943.

‘My old sergeant liked me and he’d given me a three-day pass and a weekend pass back-to-back so that I could go home,’ Flynn said. ‘While home on a pass, we had decided we would be married on my next furlough. But my furlough came only four days later. Margie had bought her dress the week before. When I’d only been home one day and while we were out getting a dress uniform for me, at Harris and Jacobs, my seven-day furlough and three-day pass was cut short by a telegram that told me to report to Fort Polk (Louisiana) as soon as possible after midnight of the 21st.

‘We called every church in town. I guess ministers took Monday off then ‘cause we couldn’t find one, but Margie and I were able to get married and have a couple of days before I was reassigned with the rest of my group.’

In October 1943, Mother went to Fort Polk to be with Daddy for about two weeks. When she saw him off on Oct. 23, 1943, she was not to see him again until about Oct. 10, 1945, almost two years later.

Unlike many who married during the war, they feel fortunate to have shared the years since together.”

        

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