&quot;In 1946 he married Marian Quissell, who grew up on a farm four miles from his.<p>He received his bachelor’s degree in 1948 from South Dakota State University, in Brookings, where his wife worked as a secretary. She had dropped out of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., after her freshman year to go to work to help pay for her husband’s education.&quot;<p>- What a nice story of love, sacrifice and reward given they appeared to have stayed together till the end.