Lawrence Welk
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Except it was well before stardom hit Lawrence Welk.
As a young man, he and his band traveled throughout North Dakota and eastern
South Dakota playing for dances, and one of those jobs was at Cottonwood Lake,
near Redfield, South Dakota, when he was just 17. One night, he asked 19-year-old Mary Joyce out on a date. After that date, he told Mary she was too old for him, so asked her 15-year-old sister Ag out instead! She went out with him a few times, but eventually declined his requests as his breath was terrible! |
| There are a few things about this story that don’t line up perfectly – Mary and Ag’s ages would make the year 1916, but Welk would have been only 13 then. Perhaps it was a few years later – but Mary was married in 1920, so it would likely have been around 1919. This story came from uncle Jimmy Yost, about 2002, through his nephew Brian. | 
Mary (left) and Agnes
Joyce
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