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Winter wheat gives way to ball fields in Louisville ■ t'nnrrnrrrr! from paRr {1 "We had the wheal field, which we 4tartewf ru reed the chickens," she remembered. "Char a wick they woxrld dune by hIr the eggs. Roy. that was hard work, t can't believe now 1 could cscr do it." 7uduv that field tti winter wheat wiiult1 he )test aeon* wetLo, from har- vest IJ Vlcad. stlfthall players make their nlghl's round on a mid -sown diar ' id ••I1 was such a beautiful field. (hie t11 the Warrntlxrurg boys would cosmic by and plant It in the spring. and then har- vest It. Belore that, we would harvest rt the old-I.r_4huxrcd way fusing sltkles to col the grain and gathering 11 into .hocks.:' Both the couple's tantthes were In Lou I4vIIIC when the two would meet. Ralph'. fsnul}• originally hailed from Sweden. making their way to LA KB WI llr fnxn PennsyIvarua and then the corning camp tiT Salina in Boulder Count., Mary's fain::}. the Btldncri_ had come :o)rit Yugtnlavla. and haul rnadc their way through Illinois and the min- ing .amp elf IkltckYak. near Canon City. She Isn t real sure htlw they ended up becoming husband and wile "Oh. he was just :ur lurid He was always chumming around with my younger brother." The Btxlner larnrly grew up in a ne:rrhv house that had the Acme enure in ,t fhal_ksani. Through Ihr:. D,d Hunt-6. wcrc disci. sht• said the Inc11 much pre- ferred working the hatd Ft nines in the .urnrnrr. rs en though it v. a% quite a haul up the canyon ri those days The couple would have no children. ••unfurtunaiel}" six said •'Bui 1 was alw•ayw helping tomow everyhudy's kids That's the way t1 was In thu+e days - `ftlday. there 1ut'T man> surslvar s of either faintly in the area •'lint of my Iricrtd+ are gone Oh. I f;uc4, l'ittttr14in't say that w•!th all thews card. But now when the} corns to, r. 1 think, '1]11 m}. I tucik cart ut her rrtothcr when she wa.4 just a child