Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took his family for an evening ride along the Detroit River. The two older children, Bryan, 8, and Melissa, 4, sat in the back of the family's 1977 Ford station wagon. Snuggled beside them in a child's safety seat was Kathryn, 21 months. While DeLisle drove, his wife Suzanne, 32, sat in front with nine- month-old Emily, also in an infant's seat...
...late. The car crashed through a wooden barrier at an estimated 45 m.p.h. As witnesses watched its one working taillight disappear in water 30 ft. deep, first DeLisle and then his wife splashed to the surface. Luckily, two men in a powerboat saw the couple and pulled them to safety. Divers hit the water six minutes after police were called, but none of the four children could be revived...
Acquaintances described DeLisle, who earned $31,200 a year as a service manager for a tire store, as hardworking and quiet. His wife, who had studied criminal justice in college, was rarely seen without the children. Wyandotte + police chief Edward Rothermal assured the Detroit Free Press, "This was a loving couple, good family people." Hundreds of area residents left toys and flowers at the accident site, in memory of the lost children and in sympathy for the parents...
...would. Being Jules' wife was more important than being Ann Landers...
Clancy has been at loose ends since he came down from the adrenaline rush of completing Danger (he wrote the final 45 manuscript pages in a single day to meet his May 1 deadline). His self-reward was a cross-country train trip with wife Wanda and their four children (the youngest is a three-year-old daughter), plus Rodgers and his wife. Clancy, who shares his hero Ryan's aversion to flying, rented an entire Amtrak parlor car for the trip...