A TRUE LOVE DELAYED BUT NOT DENIED.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
SAUGUS - For a guy who never liked change in his life, steady Otto's been stepping out lately. Call it a 50-year itch. Otto Otto, Austrian archduke Otto: see Hapsburg, Otto von. Sloan has worked for the same company for 50 years. He was married to the same woman for 50 years before she passed away. He lived in the same Mission Hills house for 50 years. Now, he's got a new wife - his old high school sweetheart - a new house in Saugus, and a new . . . nah nah interj. Informal No. [Variant of no1.] , he's kept the same old job. At 77, he figures he's too old to go looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a new one, and too young to leave the old one. ``I thought about retiring about 10 years ago when all my friends were retiring, but then I ended up going to all their funerals, so I said the heck heck interj. Used as a mild oath. n. Slang Used as an intensive: had a heck of a lot of money; was crowded as heck. [Alteration of hell. with that,'' Otto said. ``They're going to have to carry me out of this place feet first.'' This place is NTS NTS National Technical Systems NTS National Trust for Scotland NTS Nevada Test Site NTS NT Server (Microsoft Windows) nts Not the Same NTS National Traffic System (amateur radio) - National Technical Systems - a test laboratory for missile and satellite systems in Saugus. Otto's an engineer, but everyone around the place calls him by his middle name, Wayne. ``He's a great guy, and one of the most respected employees we have,'' says his supervisor, Jim Moore, who will be presenting Wayne (Otto) with his 50-year pin early next month at a company party in his honor. Betty Sloan will be there. She's Otto's new wife and old girlfriend. Their love story is one of those wonderful things that happen late in life when most seniors figure their best years are behind them. Many are. Some aren't. Otto says his first wife of 50 years, Dolly, who passed away in 1996, wouldn't be surprised one bit by how things have turned out for him. Dolly didn't have a jealous jeal·ous adj. 1. Fearful or wary of being supplanted; apprehensive of losing affection or position. 2. a. Resentful or bitter in rivalry; envious: jealous of the success of others. bone in her body, he says, which is good because Otto was carrying Betty's high school picture around in his wallet See digital wallet. all those years he was married to Dolly. ``She knew about it,'' he said Wednesday, waiting for Betty to pick him up for work and take him home. ``Dolly thought I was crazy, but I know she would be happy for me now.'' He was never crazy, Otto said, just very smitten smit·ten v. A past participle of smite. smitten Verb a past participle of smite Adjective deeply affected by love (for) Adj. 1. by an old high school sweetheart who moved away with her family to Washington after graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. , while Otto moved on to serve in the Navy during World War II. ``We just lost track of each other,'' Betty says. ``But we always stayed in each others' hearts.'' Fast-forward 55 years. Betty and Otto are now both widowed. Fate is about to step in. ``One of Otto's cousins who had stayed in touch with my sister after high school sent her some old pictures she had found of us,'' Betty said. ``I wrote her back and asked if she knew how Otto was doing? She wrote me back and said, funny thing, Otto had just written her and asked if she knew how Betty was doing?'' Turns out they were both doing just fine and ready for one more crack at the relationship that war and a Bekins moving van had robbed them of almost 60 years ago. ``He called me, and we practically got married over the phone,'' Betty said, laughing. Officially, they waited until August 1999, then went looking for a new house. Steady Otto ain't so steady anymore. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Betty and Otto Wayne Sloan married after being separated nearly 60 years. John McCoy/Staff Photographer |
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