Information about Charles and Vellys early married life

I pulled this information from Jan Foulger Tingey's autobiography. I was going to just write down the information but Jan is such a beautiful writer that I thought I better just let her say it.

"My mother, Vellys Woods, and my father, Charles Frederick Foulger, were married in the Salt Lake Temple on September 18, 1929, by Elder David O. McKay. At the time, he was one of the members of the Council of the Twelve Apostles. My mother was working at Boyle Furniture Company as a stenographer for $40 per month. My father was working for W.H. Wright and Sons Company. He was hired by Laurence L. Balch to sell shoes for $4 a day. They paid $32.50 a month for a very comfortable little apartment. It was called “Avon Apartment,” and was located on Twenty-Fifth Street in Ogden, Utah.

My father said that my mother "acquired a taste for fine furniture" while she worked for Boyle Furniture Company. They furnished their apartment at a cost well beyond their means but my father still remembers the beauty and joy of their lives in that lovely home. They lived there – until the spring of 1933, at which time they moved to a little, white frame cottage in Ogden Canyon. It was located just above the Ogden dam, and at the base of Wheeler's Canyon, where Wheeler's Creek ran into the dam. The front lawn rolled right down into the water. They had a boat, a motor and some friends. They had a very happy life there.

My father and Larry Balch decided to go into business together with Mr. L.A. Roden. Larry had a few hundred dollars and my father had none at all. Mr. Rhoden had a little money, so the three men rented a building in Klamath Falls, Oregon, for $60 a month. It was located at 525 Main Street. Larry ordered the opening stock of shoes and my father ordered the Hummingbird hosiery.

The year of 1933 was a difficult one for many people. The United States was in a deep depression and hundreds of banks throughout the country had gone broke. I think my father was very brave to quit his job in Ogden and move to Oregon to start a new business. He said, "That of all the people in Ogden, I talked to about my move, the only single one that gave me any encouragement was my own dad!"

In the operation of the new store, Larry and L.A. were going to retain the jobs they already had and my father was to operate the store. My father went to Oregon in the middle of August 1933 and my mother was to follow as soon as she could liquidate their furniture and my father could get organized. My father borrowed $18 from my Uncle Jim to buy a bus ticket from Ogden, Utah, to Portland, Oregon. He met Larry there and then took a train to Klamath Falls, which was about 300 miles south. He said, "I arrived in Klamath Falls, feeling very much alone. I got a room at the Kern Hotel about one and one-half blocks from the store for only $4.50 per week. Money was a very scarce commodity, which reduced my menu to two donuts for breakfast and a twenty-cent sandwich for lunch and a hamburger and a glass of milk for dinner."

The store was opened in September, just before the opening of school. My mother came to join my father in November of 1933. He said, "I was most anxious and happy to see her." They lived in a room at the Kerr Hotel for a few days and then moved to an apartment at the Audley Apartments. After a few months, they moved to a penthouse at the top of the Early Hotel."