Jackie Olesky Straight, Class of 1955, who lives in Rivesville, gained a granddaughter-in-law on Saturday, September 29 while WVU was stopping our hearts while trying to not collapse in a football game against Texas Tech.

I don’t understand why anyone in West Virginia would have a wedding when the Mountaineers are playing football, but that’s just me.

Jackie’s grandson, Aaron Morris, married Courtney Sloan. Aaron and Courtney were Fairmont West high school sweethearts. Aaron’s mother is Belinda Straight Morris, one of Jackie’s three daughters. Belinda is married to David Morris. Jackie is the widow of another David, David Straight.

Adam Morris, Aaron’s brother, was best man. 

Jackie’s other daughters are Lea Ann and Renee.

The wedding and reception took place in Bridgeport even though the bride and groom are from Fairmont because they needed a reception hall that would hold 300 people and a dance floor large enough to handle that many feet.

Jackie -- who received a Catholic Charities Salt and Light Award years ago for her charity work involving gettig gifts to children whose families do not have that much money, which she still does several times every year -- said grace at the reception. Mamaw, as her grandchildren call Jackie, focused on the deceased grandparents on both sides.

The Olesky side would be John W. Olesky, Sr., a coal miner who survived TWO cave-ins that covered at least 4 feet of any part of his body, and Lena Futten Olesky, who was born in Austria but left for America from Italy even though she never changed towns (World War I switched the boundaries so that the land went from being in Austria to being in Italy).