Alice Lydia Reining was born July 1, 1924 in Ayshire, Iowa. The seventh of nine children, she was given the nickname Jackie as a young girl.
At the age of 19, Jackie, her sister and brother-in-law moved to Hamilton, where she met Charles N. Barnes.
The starry-eyed teenagers met on a Saturday night and married the next Friday. They embarked on a 67-year journey of epic proportion, or so it seemed to …
