The courtship after S of O

I've heard the story, but now some of it is fuzzy. It seems that after graduation Dad went to St.Louis to work for Monocoupe and was engaged to someone named Jane. I think Grandma Merk broke up the relationship. Well, anyway Dad got Mom's address where she was working in Michigan and wrote that he would like for her to come down to St.Louis. She scraped up bus fair and went to St.Louis and met Dad and then they drove down to meet Grandma and Grandpa.
The courtship was short because it was obvious to both of them that they really had been in love for a long time. They were married in Harrison Arkansas by a Justice of the Peace on May 27, 1938. They said the lady that was their witness gave them a scouring pad and told them that they were now going to have to "scatch for it". That was the only wedding present that they received.
They moved to St.Louis and lived with Grandma Merk(not a good situation). The first time Grandpa Powell met her he said, "Flete you better watch out for that old gal - she is a mean one!" Truer words were never spoken!
They lived in St.Louis until the summer of 1939 and then they moved with Monocoupe down to Orlando Florida - another story later.