That's the way Audrey and Bill met in the fall of 1933:

Audrey was about 15 years old, while she and her mother and sisters were picking cotton for Delbert's stepfather, W. A. 'Bill' Lovett, Sr., in Comanche Co. OK. She knew her 'numbers' so she was put to work at the scales, keeping track of the weights. When Wm. D. saw her he started walking by often just to get a look at her. Finally he started walking her home after work and she said he would try to hold her hand but she was having none of that.

Finally, as the work was about finished and it was coming upon the time her family would be moving on to the next job, Bill Lovett suggested that Delbert and Audrey get married. Audrey said that Delbert didn't ask, he *told* her they were getting married.

They were living on Bill Lovett's property near Punkin Center, east of Lawton, OK, a year later when Glen was born.

As told by Audrey Cordell (1989) and W.A. `JR' Lovett Jr.(Bill Cordell's half brother) (1996)

Pictures of that summer in 1933

Oma Shawhart, Rosa Shawhart, Mildred Key, W.D., Ona Shawhart, Audrey, John Plunkett. Bill Key is down front.

Rosa Shawhart, Audrey Shawhart, Ona Shawhart, Mildred Key.

W.D and Ona Shawhart

These were all taken east of Lawton, Oklahoma on W.A. "Bill" Lovett's farm. (He lost it later in the Depression)

Audrey worked at the Duncan Junior High School cafeteria for a while and then at the snack shop in the Montgomery Wards store at the Mall. She was known as a good pie baker. When Glen took a pie to work with him one day she started getting calls for pies and had a good business going when she wanted to do it.

[As told to me by my mother, 1999]

Henryetta, Oklahoma