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----Source: TRG (Tribune-Record-Gleaner) 09/30/1987
ALBERT NEUENFELDT
Greenwood, Clark County It seems that in nearly any large event
there is a hidden romantic story or two. The Greenwood Peace
Memorial dedication 50 years ago was no exception.
Albert (Abbie) and Ferne Neuenfeldt, Greenwood, claim the day as
the day that they met. That day has led to 48 years and counting of
marriage.
Abbie, who Tribune-Record-Gleaner readers know as the former
publisher of the Greenwood Gleaner and Greenwood editor emeritus,
had spent many hours printing about 10,000 programs for the famous
Oct. 3, 1937 dedication.
Unfortunately, there were a few more programs printed than there
were people to purchase them.
Young Ferne Haunschild, who was in her first year in teaching third
and fourth grade at Greenwood Elementary School, was one of the
faculty who had been recruited to sell, sell, sell.
I didn't know anybody in the community, Ferne said. I stopped Abbie
on the street and asked him if he d like to buy a program. He said
no thanks , because he d just gotten done making a run of a few
thousand of them.
That was the only contact the couple had for two days. That's when
Abbie finally remembered the girl who d made some impression on the
street and called her to ask her for a date.
He just knew who the new school teachers were in town, that's whey
he called, she said.
The new school teacher and the local printer married in 1940 at
Marshfield. Abbie continued with his work at the Greenwood Gleaner
and Ferne continued her career at Greenwood Public Schools, where
she teaches kindergarten.
The Neuenfeldts will have a lot to remember Sunday, when the
monument is rededicated.
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