RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) When Joe Ellen, Jr. was a sailor for the US Navy during World World Two, he had no idea he d meet the love of his life on a school bus while hitchhiking on a dirt road in Nash County.
The bus driver recognized Joe s friend and invited the two on the bus for a ride. I saw this girl about the second seat back the prettiest girl I d ever looked at, he said.
He told ABC11 that when he laid eyes on a woman sitting on the bus that he knew right away she was going to be his wife.