Linda Pollari shares, “My father, 89-year old Vernon Braun, always believed that if something was meant to be, it will happen. His faith has served him well over the years and recently brought love back into his life – love he thought was lost years before.”

It was the summer of 1940. Vernon and Rita met at a 4-H event in Doyle, Minnesota.  She was 100% Irish Catholic, and he 100% German Lutheran, but that didn’t stop them from becoming high school sweethearts.  Faith was always a common thread, a belief in what was meant to be.  Their “country courtship” consisted of long walks down country driveways, and a movie or two. But World War II cut their romance short, taking him overseas for over four years.