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During these years in her childhood, she said she remembers that wall telephones and radios were big deals but doesn't remember much else.
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James Stucky, Joanne's husband, was born on a farm
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Joanne Elaine Flickner was born on October 18th in 1942 in Grace Hospital to a Elmer and Hulda Flickner, a Mennonite family, who lived on a small farm near Pretty Prairie.
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Story on Youtube: https://youtu.be/NAScs2RUGNs (Video only available with the link)
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During the 1950's, one of the new technologies she remembers are getting her first balck and white TV. She also remembers having her first automatic washing machine during college.
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Joanne met Jim in the second grade as they went to school and church together.
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She remembers the Korean war being strange and scary.
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In the second grade, she remembers having a little blue scooter and putting it in her barn on the farm where she lived. She remembers going back to get it and the barn had burned down.
Not her picture, just a barn around the same time
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The first president she remembers is Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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In the 7th grade, she had running water in her house for the first time.
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She says she remembers hearing about it on the news.
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Jim and Joanne got engaged on Joanne's 20th birthday after being highschool sweethearts.
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Elmer R, Flickner passed away the day her wedding invites were sent out. He was there when her wedding pictures were taken, therefore they mean a lot to her. When asked if she wanted someone else to walk her up the aisle at her wedding, she said she could do it by herself. -
Joanne Flickner became Joanne Stucky. Her and Jim got married at the First Mennonite Church in Pretty Prarie, KS.
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Joanne remembers hearing about this while working at Heston corporation in accounting and being devastated.
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Her daughter Tisha was born to her and her husband Jim in Kingman, KS.
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This is a picture of Jim playing with his daughter Tisha,
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The family's first pet, was a white fluffy dog named Mickey.
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She remembers just looking up at the sky at night with her family and thinking "There's really somebody up there."
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Jim and Joanne adopted a boy named Chris at 10 days old. His birthday is April 16th.
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In 1971, Joanne and her husband Jim had a home business from 1971 selling nutritional safe cleaning products and skin products. Because of this, she got to do lots of traveling and went to Hawaii twice, Vienna, Florida, California, Canada, Washington State, and San Antonio. -
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Story on Youtube: http://youtu.be/eH44srP3ffA (Video only available with the link)
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From 1979 - 1983 Chris played highschool football for Salina High School South.
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Tisha Stucky gradated from highscool at Salina South High.
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Jim and Joanne were featured in a banking commercial in 1986 with them on a motrocycle.
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Chris had his confirmation part at Trinity United Methodist Church in the May of 1987.
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Tisha Stucky graduated from Kansas University in the May of 1987.
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Chris graduated highschool from Salina South High School in 1989.
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She remembers new technology being cell phones. They started out really big and she remembers being excited when they worked so well.
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Joanne's daughter got married in 1990 to Brad Beckman in Salina Kansas.
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She remembers the Desert Storm War and it being strange because she was able to watch it on TV.
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When Joanne turned 50, she had a birthday party with her family and friends.
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Elizabeth was born to Tisha and her husband Brad in 1993. She's almost 22 now.
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Youtube Story: http://youtu.be/_Uj_56flFSY (Video only available with link)
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She remembers the falling of the twin towers on 9/11. She was at home getting ready for church when she heard about it.
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Around 2013, she wrote a book about her ancestry. She found that her grandmother had traveled here from Poland in 1913 and much more interesting history.
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I met Joanne Stucky last week to do this project with her. She now lives here in Salina and attends First Covenant Church. She loves to listen to music and be with her family (including her 8 grand children) and friends, her best friend being Judy (also in the picture). She also loves to scrapbook, cook, and listen to music. It was lovely getting to know about her life, and getting to know her as well. :)
