Robert H. (Bob) Harwood was born in Milam County, Texas. His family lived at Gause and Bob graduated from the nearby High School in Hearne. Bob was working on road construction when he first met Roberta Cole, a Southwest Texas State College girl on a weekend visit to Gause. Roberta graduated at San Marcos and got a job teaching school in Burnet County, not far from her family home in Bertram. Robert and Roberta had stayed in touch but didn’t see each another very often until Bob's company sent him to build the highway be­tween Buchanan Dam and Llano. That made it con­venient for a lot of Saturday night dates going to the movies in Burnet. Then the war came. Bob enlisted...