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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Neva Staff Writer
When Garnett Whitney left Pierre, South Dakota, to come to the Washington, D.C. area, she supposed it marked the end of her high school romance with Ray Cass who stayed behind to help run his family’s farm.
She had known him since seventh grade when her older brother taught him in school. Although they never attended school together, they dated during their senior years and the year after when she wdHced as a cashier in the J.C. Penney Store in Pierre.
Her older sister Ruth and two of her brothers were working in Washington, so she decided to give it a try. She found a job as a secretary working for the government. Her sister married one of the Talley boys from Louisa County, Virginia, and she introduced her sister Garnett to his brother William Talley. They got married also and had three children.
Ray married too, and he and his wife Margie had six children.
The years passed, and the children grew up and married and started their own families. The Talley’s son Bill was living in Florida. The older daughter Jeane was living in California, and younger daughter Ellie had married Jim Clark and was living in Tiger Valley in Rappahannock County.
After her husband died Garnett Whitney Talley moved to a retirement home in Occoquan.
Then Ray’s wife died. After some months, his sister Genevieve, who had kept up a correspondence with Garnett Talley over the years, gave him her address and telephone number.
“We hadn’t seen each other much
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