Family Group Sheet for Charles Clayton Hejtmanek / Eleanor V Peterson Hejtmanek (F1996) m. 24 Sep 1944 : Rossville Kansas area genealogy

Documents		Anniversary- Hejtmanek, Clayton and Eleanor 1 Eleanor and Clayton Hejtmanek Clayton and Eleanor Hejtmanek, Topeka, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with a family dinner at the China Inn in Topeka hosted by their children. Clayton Hejtmanek and Eleanor Peterson were married Sept. 24,1944, at the home of the bride’s parents in Frederick, S.D., while Mr. Hejtmanek was serving in the U.S. Army as a Medical Administrative Corps officer during World War II. Their children and spouses are Vicki Fordyce, Sugar Land, Texas; Stephen and Judie Hejtmanek, Topeka; and Kathy and Chris Stiles, Overland Park. They have two grandchildren, Kelly Fordyce, Sugar Land, and Charles Fordyce and his wife, Rain, Edmonds, Wash; and two step-grandsons, Dr. Harlow Schmidt and his wife, Cheryl, Leawood, and Allen Schmidt and wife, Janie, Geneva, Ill. They have seven great-grandchildren, Charles and Hugh Fordyce, Edmonds; Graham, Griffin and Olivia Schmidt, Leawood; and Evan and Dana Schmidt, Geneva, Ill. Mr. Hejtmanek was a registered representative for Equitable Life Assurance Society. He retired in 1998. During World War II, Mrs. Hejtmanek was employed by the Security and Intelligence Division of the U.S. Army for War Crimes at Camp Burner, N.C. Much later, she was employed by Topeka Presbyterian Manor for 13 years. The couple now reside at Topeka Presbyterian Manor, 4712 S.W. 6th, No. 161, Topeka, 66606.
Documents		Anniversary- Hejtmanek, Clayton and Eleanor 2 The Hejtmaneks (photo in the news clip) If there’s a romantic in the group, it would be (Charles) Clayton Hejtmanek, who hails from Delia, just north of Rossville. He said the first time he saw Eleanor, the woman he married, he thought she was “the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen.” That was nearly 63 years ago, and he still calls her “sweetheart.” Never mind that Eleanor had come to “take my job.” He was heading for military service in the Army. It was nine months before Pearl Harbor, he said. He was working at Kansas City’s Consumer’s Co-op, and she was hired to take his position. It was a job that entailed shipping farm commodities across the country. He was sent to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., where he ended up training and dong administrative work. When they met, he was 24, and she was 21. “I said to myself ‘That’s the girls I’ve just got to have,’” Clayton Hejtmanek said. They dated. They liked dancing, so that was one of their main pastimes, dancing at Kansas City’s Play-Mor. While he was gone to the service, they corresponded. As he was being transferred from Missouri to Abilene, Texas, they decided to get married. Looking back on their marriage, they said that what has worked for them is that they “like to do a lot of the same things together.” These interests include gardening and lots of traveling across the United States by bus and by airlines. If you want to keep a marriage together, they said “you’ve got to be able to give and take” in the relationship.

Family: Charles Clayton Hejtmanek / Eleanor V Peterson Hejtmanek (F1996)