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Harvey love affairsHelen and Harry Thornbe* ai their 75th anniversary partyHarry and Helen’s first child. Blanche Now a married woman herself ol more than 50 years. Blanche Thornber Hein says. “I've always felt my parent's marriage was made in heaven.As with all love stories, there are both happy and sad episodes Such a one for the Thornbers was the birth and death two years later of a second child. Harry WilliamA third child, Harry Ernest, who became known as 'Bud to distinguish him from his father, was bom in 1917. He died in 1961 The Thornber children grew up surrounded by their parents' love It was always evident “how they felt about each other. recalls Blanche “Each one seemed to put the other first I can remember every day him putting his arms around her and telling her he loved her in front of anyone - he was never embarrassed.To mark the chapter titled Harry and Helen's 75th anniversary, Sherry and Kiki. two of the couple's eight greatgrandchildren put together a surprise party at Blanche and George Hein's Lansing home They also arranged for a Star photographer to take the anniversary couple’s picture The 25 guests were mostly relatives, and Harry was tickled to see them all.He's sharp as a tack, you know. comments George Hein My mother-in-law isn't quite as outgoing as he is. but he’s a comedian.Still hale and hearty, the Thornbers are living out their love story at Paradise Park mobile home park in Lynwood.‘We have our good days and our bad. says Helen, but I'm just so glad we re still toether * Although their birthdays number more than 90. Harry and Helen have a lot of friends younger than they are. says George He likes draft beer. and. even now. we'll go out and have one.Thornber grandchildren are Richard Thornber of Homewood, the late Patricia Thornber and Lynnda Redmond of I.ake Village. IndHarry and Helen Thornber in 1963. at their 50th wedding anniversary.They met at the Harvey theater back in 1910By ROBERTA BLACK WELL-GLEA SON This is a long love story Seventy-five years long to be exactIt begins back around 1910 in Harvey when young Harry Thorn-bcr. 19 at the time, met Helen Snyder, three years his junior She was waiting with a girlfriend for the show to begin at the Harvey theater and Harry was there with one of his friends He was attracted to me. recalled Helen in a telephone conversation with The Star The two began to talk and later he asked her for a date. A properly brought-up young lady, her reply was Yes. if you will come home to meet my parents 'A few years before Harry went to work at the American Stove company, the makers of Magic Chef ranges He was a young man with prospects, and he soon became her steady beau The couple courted for three years and then Harry popped the question. They were married at her parents' home September 27, 1913Harry’s prospects improved as the years went by. He left American Stove for the Buda company and then in 1937 went to work for International Harvester He retired from the Harvey plant in 1957.A chapter in this love story was written in 1914 with the birth of
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Harvey Star
Harvey, Illinois, US
Sun, Oct 02, 1988
Page 9
Full Page
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