How we met: ‘By the time I called, she was dating other people’

When Randy Sue first saw a picture of Courtney on a friend's wall, she jokingly called him her future husband. They finally met three years later, married and now live in Houston, Texas

Randy Sue was studying at college in Texas in the spring of 1966 when she went to visit a friend in Raymondville, near the Mexican border. I spotted a picture of a handsome man on the wall and asked who it was. My friend told me it was her brother, Courtney, who was in Germany with the army," she says. Randy Sue joked to her friend's mother that she was going to be her daughter-in-law. She hugged me and said she'd been praying for me," she laughs.

But when Courtney received a letter from his sister telling him she had met his future wife", he was less than impressed. I was 5,000 miles away and definitely didn't want my sister telling me what to do," he says. In 1968, he returned to Texas and found a job at a company that made office equipment. His sister continued her matchmaking attempts. She kept telling each of us that the other one really wanted to meet up," says Randy Sue. But I'd just seen it as a joke."

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