The Jack Miller Archive

Gus was Jack's best man. A Faith Worth Sharing, Kindle 376

It was a year after Gus had become a Christian, which happened sometime later that Spring after Jack had brought Gus to the young people's meeting at church on New Year's Eve 1948.

In the interview with Rose Marie she clarified their marriage was January 29, 1950. They moved into a one bedroom house Jack had lived in paying $20 a month rent.
Rose Marie was a friend from church. AFWS, 637

According to Rosann's email Jack married Rose Marie when he was a sophomore in college at San Francisco State University.

Bob & Keren & Rose Marie Interview 1

RM: when he became a Christian, his pastor was an older, Godly man, Reverend Ahfeldt and and he would sit for hours in reading all the, I mean he just explored and he just was a sponge for all of this all of this the the scholars, the Whitfields, the Calvins, the Luthers, you know all of that. It's all in his studies. In fact, when Jack asked me to marry him and we went to the pastor, he was not very happy with Jack getting married because he said you know this man has a lot to do, I mean it's another story. #3:52:7.1#

RM: He he said you know he has all this education you know he really should should not have marriage interfere. #3:52:18.7#

RM: Oh yeah yeah. But so yeah. And yeah at the end of all of this education, the university, his Ph.D. his D. Min (meant Mdiv) program and five kids later we didn't have any debt you know. That's a story of (inaudible). #3:52:43.2#

M: Okay, where did you get married?

RM: But he [father] had moved his family out to across the Bay and to really beautiful area. Had a beautiful home ... And my mother wouldn't get married in the, wouldn't come to the church if I were married in the church. So we moved the wedding to my home, and it was a little village, a fishing village called the Bolinas. #4:12:20.9#

Location: San Francisco, California

Rose Marie Miller interview.

RoseMarie commuted to school for her last semester after they were married on January 29, 1950. Jack was a freshman school, maybe a sophomore.

See also email from Paul Miller dated October 25, 2016.

Lorenz Carlsen sells 10 acres in Bolinas, north of Golden Gate bridge. (He'd sold home in Daly City earlier in the 50s and retired to Bolinas. Bolinas was where Jack and Rose Marie were married. It was a beautiful home.)