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For a season, my parents lived on South Front Street in New Boston, Texas. A small town. Their town. And quite possibly like your town. Yes, like many towns in East Texas.

A few years ago, I wrote a short, little book called “364 Days of Thanksgiving.” If I’m honest, it was more of a journal than a book. The point of the book was to encourage the reader to write down one thing each day for which they were thankful to God. The only catch was that they could never repeat. They had to think of something new or different every day.

Lois and Ted Burgdorf celebrated 70 years of marriage this month by gathering with their family and community of friends at Grace Lutheran Church near Lake Cypress Springs, Texas. They met as college students in Mankato, Minnesota, and were married in New Prague, Minnesota, on August 14, 1951. During their courtship, Ted served in the US Army for three years while Lois worked as an elementary school teacher. Soon after they were married, they moved to Dallas, Texas, where Ted began his successful career in the automobile business and Lois relished her role as a homemaker raising their four sons: Dale, Darrell, David, Douglas and one daughter, Diane. Their extended family includes six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, with number ten due this December. COURTESY PHOTO