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A quart milk bottle from Meadow View Dairy
developed into a courtship. By the time they were married, Warren was busy holding down two jobs. He was still working on the farm and also working part-time as a fireman on an N&W Railway train.
Warren and Etta were married in Rustburg, Virginia, on November 1,1919. For a short while, they lived with Warren’s older brother and sister-in-law, Carey H. Falwell and Helen Beasley Falwell, parents of the Reverend Jerry Falwell. Later Warren and Etta moved into a vacant structure on Meadow View Farm while they finished building their first house on the property, just as Carey and Helen had done before them.
Warren and Etta went on to have four children. Calvin was born in October 1920, Lawrence in January
1922, and Margaret Catherine in September 1923. Margaret Catherine was barely six weeks old when she died of pneumonia—a complication of the whooping cough she contracted from her brothers. (Her doctor had said she wouldn’t catch whooping cough from her siblings but she did.) Warren was crushed, and so when I was born in October 1929, he was pleased to have a little one around the house again. My father dubbed me “Pee Wee” the day I was born.
The faces of my parents are circled
in this school picture. Warren Falwell and Etta Tanner attended Fairview School, but no romance was in the air back then. Etta was about 19 months younger, so they were not in the same classroom.
Calvin, Lawrence, and Pee Wee Falwell
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