Ruth and Jim Montgomery

March 8, 1947

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Ruth: He was in the service when I was a teenager. He jumped at Normandy.

Jim: I was in the G Company, 506th parachute infantry – a paratrooper. I got shot through the right lung. The medic shook his head and says, ‘No need to take him. He’s not going to last very long,’ and my company commander was standing there, and he says, ‘Has he got a pulse?’ ‘Yeah, he’s got one but he won’t have it very long.’ My company commander says, ‘If he has one, we’ll take him.’ So that’w when they carried me out. Fortunately, I recovered without any bad disabilities.

Ruth: He came home from the service and was working at Republic National Bank, and he was the teller I was dealing with at the bank. I worked at Mobil Oil right out of high school, so I’d run over to the bank to make deposits. I guess he thought I had a lot of money.

Jim: I don’t recall it, but I’m not going to argue with it.

Ruth: He called to ask for a date; he had my number from my records at the bank. I was dating a lot of other guys at the time, one very seriously. The night we got engaged, the other boy came over and tried to talk me out of it. We started dating in November, and were engaged in December, married in March. It will be 61 years on March 8, 2008.

Jim: We purchased a small house out in Casa View, and she worked for Mobil Oil until she got pregnant the first time. We outgrew that house over in East Dallas, and we built this one. So that’s why we’re here. We came along