A Fortuitous Friendship

When Jim was two, I began visiting the elementary area at Broadway, and soon began working there. My specialty was working with two year olds. (This is how I first met Royce, who would become one of Jim’s friends. Royce’s big sister brought him to Sunday school. I guess they lived near the church.)
It was at Broadway that I met Agnes Coffey Jenness. She and I worked in Bible School together in the summer of 1951, I think.
She and her husband Tom had recently bought the Eagle Mountain Lake property. They had no improvements on the place, no house or dock or water or shelter. But Agnes and the children, Elizabeth Ann and Thomas, spent a lot of time out there around the water.
One day Agnes invited some of us to go with her and her children for a picnic and swim after Bible School. We had such a good time that we did that every day for a while, I think. Jim loved playing in the shallow, and Carolyn loved swimming with the girls.
Agnes and I became very good friends, and we met Tom and liked him a lot also. We did lots of things together.
First Tom and Agnes built a "cabin" where their home is now. It consisted of a screened porch which is still in tact. What is the den now was the living area with a small kitchen. The bedroom and bath were the same.
We were really glad to have a bathroom and a place to change clothes in private. There were very few houses close to them at that time.
Later, they built their lovely home around that cabin and finally moved out there to stay. They spent lots of week-ends in the cabin before they built their home.