![]() ![]() He called Lyn to say he was coming to visit, using the new britches his mom had bought for him as an excuse.īen got up at 4:30 a.m. On a Friday night, Bennie's mother gave him some double-knit bell-bottom pants and encouraged him to wear them instead of his usual jeans the next time he took Lyn on a date. "He said, 'If you'll pick out a movie, I'll come back tomorrow and we'll go.' So, the next night he came back and we went to see 'The Cowboys' at Cinema 150." He took me back home and I laughed all the way back, and I had never in my life felt as comfortable as I did with him," she says. Lyn had on a short blue dress when they met, he says, but it was her long dark hair and big dark eyes that grabbed his attention. "But you've got to understand, I was paying for two farms and I didn't have time to go out," says Bennie, who had to quit work early to make the date. In March 1972, she arranged a blind date for Lyn and Bennie, who worked on their family's dairy farm.īennie was excited to meet Lyn when they went with his sister and her husband to eat dinner at Casa Bonita in Little Rock. ![]() "There were several who worked for the FBI that had a rural background, and we all became friends," Lyn says.īennie's sister was one of those friends. After going to business college, she looked for a cool job - one with air conditioning - and found one with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Little Rock. Lyn grew up on a farm in northern Jefferson County and spent many days, hot and sweaty, chopping cotton. "It changed everything," she says of her introduction to Bennie Hicks. Lyn Pledger wanted nothing to do with farming - until she met an aspiring dairy farmer. ![]()
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