“Memories”
Listen to the “Epilogue: Fifty-nine Years Later”
Victor Morgan is dead. It was Allen who told Julie in 2001, but he didn’t have details. No one else knew anything about the rest of the Morgan family—until Julie found an obituary for one of his younger female siblings who “went home with the Lord on September 8, 2010.” So far, no one knows whatever happened to Gloria Martin or Phyllis or LeRoy Chester.
Sarah Meyer is dead. She soon forgot about Victor Morgan; and she was the first of the Riverdale kids to get married, right out of high school. But she and her husband Ed had four children and six grandchildren and seemed to have lived a happy life until her passing in 2007.
Ken Nelson also got married right out of high school, to a girl named Rebecca who grew up in the neighboring town of San Juan. Ken became a father and an important member of the Riverdale community. He died in 2018 at age 74. His obituary read, “He retired from Riverdale Municipal Water District after 30 years. He loved trucks, tractors, travel, and time with family.”
Sandra Lee married Bob Miller, and their romantic wedding was in the Riverdale Church in 1966. Life blessed them with three daughters.
Cynthia Donaldson eventually gave up on Steve Emory and married a dentist somewhere up north. Unfortunately, Jim Donaldson, Jr., who became a physician like their father, is also deceased.
Steve Emory became a dentist like his father, married, had two daughters, and became a California State Congressperson, representing Riverdale County.
Ella’s dream career was to become a nurse. She married a newspaper tycoon and lived in New City where they raised their four daughters. Ella’s younger brother Frank who joined the Army is now deceased, but he and Carlos remained lifelong friends.
Of course, all the wonderful parents of the Riverdale kids are long since deceased, but they live on in our beautiful memories of them.
Allen and Julie got back together again—twice—then broke up for the third and final time. Years later, Allen got married and Julie got married, but just not to each other. They were each blessed with a son and a daughter. And then they both divorced and later reconnected by email—but all that is for another story.
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