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Dave Joan Briggs
A Lifetime of Love
by Gayle Willson
92 years that affected his hearing,
but his devoted and loving wife,
e often see in our offices Joan, compensates for any selective
a married couple having hearing he might have developed.
Wa conversation, and Dave has worn hearing aids now
one will comment to the other and for 25+ years, and we try to keep
be misunderstood. Or sometimes him in the current technology for
one of them may not even notice his optimal understanding. We have
that they are missing out on the enjoyed getting to know the Briggs
conversation. Sometimes, it is a couple and to experience the love
lack of focus, but in they have for each other.
most cases, it is a lack
of hearing, or even Dave and Joan she greeted him dressed to go to the
understanding that the grew up together in prom - with someone else! He told
other person is actually Pennsylvania, attending himself, “Don’t give up, try again”.
talking to you. Your the same church and His persistence paid off, and they
hearing health is very high school. One became a married couple, beginning
important, and we want Sunday in church, their “happily ever after” in 1949.
to help you maintain it. he “noticed” her and
was determined to Dave began his education at Bible
Mr. Dave Briggs get to know her. He College at Wheaton and then
might have had some went to her house and continued at Dallas Theological
circumstances in his knocked on the door; Seminary. Joan attended nursing
school in NYC. She worked for an
alderman, a newborn nursery at the
hospital, and then was busy with
two girls, Billie and Bobbie. Dave
continued to get his Masters in
Dallas. The thread that has bonded
them is their family and their faith.
They moved to Lake Charles,
Louisiana, where they were the
directors of Boys Village. It was here
they began to work with horses,
Cloudy and Blaze, realizing their
love for the equestrian world. Both
girls, Joan and Dave were all expert
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