Doris and Maurice Hillermann will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary later this year, but it is a relationship that almost didn’t happen.
The pair, who met as teenagers at a community dance in Clover Bottom, were scheduled to go out on their first official date.
“He was supposed to pick me up at 7 for a dance that night, but he wasn’t there,” Doris (Frankenberg) Hillermann said. Instead, her date had knocked on the wrong apartment door and become ensnared in a conversation with Floyd Vandergriffe and Don Means, a neighbor of the Frankenberg family, who had been collecting donations in the neighborhood for a local charity.