Ed & Carole - Wedding & Before Babya) Ed and Carole met at LDS, Pasadena Ward, summer of 1955. Carole was 15 and Ed was 20 and between his sophomore and junior year at CalTech, and started dating seriously in December 1956. They were married at the Los Angeles LDS Temple on September 4, 1957. Ed was age 22 and Carole was 17. Edwin had graduated from CalTech in June and Carole had finished her junior year at El Monte High School.
b) Reception at LDS Pasadena Ward. From Left: Doris Cottam (who later married Buddy Jensen - far right - a CalTech classmate of Ed), Joan Wilkins - Carole's cousin, June Patton - Carole's best friend. (Bridesmaids dresses cost $13 each at Penney's in El Monte.)
d) Signing guestbook is Alice Wilkins, Carole's aunt, Joan's mother.
e) From Left: Doris, Joan, June's mother (holding Carole's hand - did artwork for wedding guestbook), Carole, ... Virginia Davis, Carole's aunt (white top, blue dress), Carole's grandmother Hazel (Hashew) Wallace (holding black purse), behind Hazel is Carole's grandfather Guy (Pop) Wallace.
f) Leaving reception, getting into Buddy's Chevrolet. Doris in front seat.
g) Housekeeping tent at Yosemite, September 1957, Honeymoon, on the way to Sacramento.
h) Carole on the rocks, Yosemite, near Merced river
i) After the wedding the moved to Sacramento, living in a duplex at 5283 Moddison Avenue in River Park near CSU Sacramento. Ed was a graduate student at Sac State. Note all of the high TV antennas.
k) These photos were taken from the train tracks
L) Carole arrived home one day to find this tumbleweed placed in the living room by Edwin and JK.
Here is the house November 2010 on Google street view
m) A few months before Kim was born, on April 19, 1958, they took a trip to San Francisco
N) Carole shows friends Fred and Martha Flinchum how big the baby is (They lived on the other side of the duplex, and Kim came home from the hospital in their gray 1958 Chevy.)
O) Ed with view of San Francisco in the background
P) On June 28, 1958 they took a trip to Lake Tahoe. This is Ed at Emerald Bay
Kim was born July 1958 at Mercy Hospital at 4001 J Street in Sacramento
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