That's My Man

At the young age of 15 Gail Joelene Engelstad's was serving dinner at her church when she could not take her eyes off the young speaker for the evening. Gail turned to her friend Mable and said, "that's my man and I am going to get him."

A year later Gail was selling sodas at the fair when the young man Leonard McGill keep coming to her booth for sodas finally getting enough nerve to ask her out.

Gail's parents were not going to allow this after all they did not know his family.

Knowing that Gail's parents would not allow them to marry the couple eloped to Iowa, and married April 26,1938.

Leonard was a Boy Scout leader in 1953 when his troop took a trip from Minnesota, to Yuba City California where he fell in love with the area. Within a short time he transferred to the Larro Feed Company in Yuba City.

The McGill's have one son, and five girls, 12 grandchildren, and 9 great grandchildren.

Leonard and Gail celebrated their 70th anniversary with family and friends on April 26, at the Hilltop Commons in Grass Valley.

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