Warren Henry Taylor & Amelia Grace Wargoski Courtship and Wedding

Grandma Amelia was 20 years old at the time (1940) when she went to work a summer time position.  Grandpa Warren was a photographer hobbyist.  He met your Grandma Amelia at the Wilmington Inn, in Wilmington, Vermont, when he was a worker there helping to care for the animals and doing daily assigned chores.  Amelia was a springtime & summer worker who was earning money to help pay for her college expenses during the summer prior to her senior year before graduation as a professional business major from Rhode Island College.  You can see springtime snow on the ground where she is leading a pony in front of the inn.  Look at the inn too.

Warren liked to tease Amelia, who had never been around large farm animals before.  Amelia was rather appalled at the crude nature and size of the animals, especially the ponies and horses used by the wealthy guests who patronized the inn.  And she did not like chickens either.  Warren took pictures of her with horses and chickens, with some of them showing Amelia's dislike for the barnyard animals.   

After returning from the European Theater air war on the battlefronts of Italy, Austria, and Hungary, aviation was bold and daring. It was air power that had won the strategic victory during World War II. So aviators like Warren were the true heroes for winning the war. Flying was very hazardous duty, and some 70 percent of lead navigators never made it home. The lead aircraft was the one plane that all air artillery gunned for, and that was the Aircraft where Warren was the lead navigator. Get the lead aircraft, and you centered your firepower on the center of the squadron to maximize your kill of most airplanes shot down. Of course, airplanes would burst into flames due to their fuel load, and then explode due to their bomb load. This did not always happen however, and Warren has stories about that.

Warren (Grandpa) always wore his Uniform during travel (as was the military policy -- which I did also). I remember his telling me that when he wore his uniform, it was much easier to impress the ladies. Apparently, it worked quite well with Amelia, since she took Grandpa’s money for the tickets to travel from Rhode Island to Idaho to visit him. Grandpa said she could visit or stay as long as she wanted. And she most certainly would not have stayed, unless Grandpa was totally respectful and caring. Grandpa’s policy was to always treat all women as if they were your sister, which he obeyed rigorously, while teaching the same to his sons.

It wasn't long after Amelia arrived in Pocatello that they were wed in a formal military ceremony.