Engagement

Grandma said she wanted to marry a farmer. (having grown-up milking cows at 4AM, at first I wanted to laugh and ask if she was crazy, but I asked her reasoning and it sounds like a good fit and pretty smart to me) She wanted to have a horse and a place for her family to learn to work. So it worked out well that Grandpa fit the bill. According to Grandma's diminishing memory they just went out alot, and spent enough time together that things just went that way. She said there was no real point of engagement, but it just seemed to evolve into the fact that they would get married.

Grandpa got Grandma the ring for Christmas in 1950. He had served in the military with a Needham boy(whose family owned Needham Jewelers in Logan) and became close friends. His friend had told him that if he ever got to the point of needing a ring, to come to him and he would give him a good deal. Since he is a Clark and can never pass up a good deal, that is where he went. Grandpa picked out the ring, and Grandma thinks he didn't fuss over it much and just got the one that fit the price. The above picture is not the actual ring, but it is a remake with the original diamonds. The actual ring had one larger diamond with a couple smaller diamonds on the sides and a band that went next to it with diamonds on it as well.

Grandma got the ring on Christmas Eve and they became "officially engaged." She knew that is what she was getting for Christmas. Although there was no real "Will you marry me?"proposal, if there was a time that was close to them officially deciding to get married, it was one night they had gone up to Grandma's family's place in Logan one weekend, and gone on a drive up Logan Canyon to first dam and talked there. Grandma said she never had second thoughts, she just knew that marrying Grandpa was the right thing to do.