The Belle of Belle Plaine

While not the best photograph, one can easily get the idea.

My Dad managed to capture the essence of the best person

I ever knew, Dolores Stark. 

Her husband George, was Dad's cousin.

The occasion is probably a wedding anniversary of

George & Dolores. Likely their 40th, as Dolores passed

away at age 65, in 1984. This is 1979. It is at 

St. Mark's Catholic Church in Shakopee.

Dolores loved everyone-especially George-and everyone

loved her! 

She would not fit in everyone's small box. She had uncorrected

strabismus (cross-eyes), but to me, it only added to her charm.

      

It was because of Dolores & George, that I became a cabin person.

They owned a place on Prior Lake and for 2 years (I was 6&7),

so did our family. I can still see them coming to visit us in their boat.

Always warm. Always kind. Always happy.

My Mother called her "The Belle of Belle Plaine"-

without a hint of derision.