Developments on the Jade Front

Michelle came to Texas to visit her grandmother, Eloise Coffey, the summer she turned 16. That was 1977—the spring that John Dan graduated from high school.
We helped Eloise entertain Michelle and all enjoyed her a lot. I think John Dan was working in a day camp and was busy a lot. But he was friendly when he had time.

We told John Dan that he could go to any state school, or live at home and go to TCU. He chose the latter. He was at home alone a lot, and I think he liked that. We had started spending a lot of time at the farm.
John Dan played in the TCU Band. Don't think their team won a game while he was in college either. No wonder football is not a big item in his life.

I think it was the summer after John Dan’s freshman year at TCU that Pam, Michelle's mother, brought her family to Texas and they rented a home in Lake Country for a while. Michelle graduated from high school at Saginaw and John Dan took her to the prom.
During this time, something was said about Michelle being his cousin. I explained how she was his cousin by marriage. Soon they became closer.
John Dan went to Florida to work in a YMCA camp. He was able to find a job for Michelle there after he arrived at the Camp. He sent for her, and they had a great time working in Florida together.
They were definitely a "couple" from then on.

Michelle did her first year of college and Tarrant County Junior College—maybe two years. I don't remember. Then she got a scholarship working at the YMCA to pay for her last two or three years at T.C.U.
Michelle and I went to all of the TCU home games, and enjoyed them in spite of the losses. She had never seen football games, and I taught her what I knew about football.
Michelle and her siblings were in and out a lot at our home at that time.