Snapshot #1: a "prodder" by Grandpa Jim

There's a question that has nagged me for some time. How on earth did Mom and Dad meet? He was raised in central Iowa, she in west-central Michigan, where they got married. How did Dad happen to be in Grand Rapids? Where had he been between Spanish American War navy service and their meeting? How did they then happen to migrate to Quincy, Illinois for the birth of their second son? I'll never know. Everybody who did know is long gone. If only they had written a memoir!