Will never married, though he very ineptly proposed to Ruth Ollis (later known as Ruth Yenter) as a young man...one hot summer harvest day as she and several women of the Ollis family were frantically fixing and serving a large bunch of harvesting men a big noon meal in their Mira Valley, Nebraska (south of Ord) farm home, socially inept Will knocked on the kitchen door and asked for Ruth at that very inappropriate time. When she came to the door he asked her to marry him. They had never dated...he must have just decided and worked up the courage to ask. She said "Will, you fool!--no! I'm busy!" All the men heard it and had a great laugh. Poor Will. He was a cross-looking, withdrawn, harmless man who never fit in very well. He lived alone in Kimball, NE most of his adult years. Will was a little "remote." Some would say he was "strange." At family gatherings he sort of sat in a corner, just off the edge of the gathering.
Will never married, though he very ineptly proposed to Ruth Ollis (later known as Ruth Yenter) as a young man...one hot summer harvest day as she and several women of the Ollis family were frantically fixing and serving a large bunch of harvesting men a big noon meal in their Mira Valley, Nebraska (south of Ord) farm home, socially inept Will knocked on the kitchen door and asked for Ruth at that very inappropriate time. When she came to the door he asked her to marry him. They had never dated...he must have just decided and worked up the courage to ask. She said "Will, you fool!--no! I'm busy!" All the men heard it and had a great laugh. Poor Will. He was a cross-looking, withdrawn, harmless man who never fit in very well. He lived alone in Kimball, NE most of his adult years. Will was a little "remote." Some would say he was "strange." At family gatherings he sort of sat in a corner, just off the edge of the gathering.
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