About their next years together, Jean said, "I got what I wanted.  All I ever wanted was to be a wife and mother.  It was my big dream.  One time I was asked how I rated myself as a wife and mother on a scale from one to ten and I said, 'I'm a nine!  I try to be perfect but I know I'm not.'"
In the '60's the young couple came to live in the large brick home on the Grimm Alfalfa Farm.  Located in the city limits of Victoria and within Carver Park Reserve, the farm has been placed on the National Historic Register. 
"That house was beautiful!" declared Jean.  "I loved it!  It was a historical site so people would come by and one time they were peeking in our windows and I screamed."
In addition to his music, Goody was working for [Henry] McKnight Company Farms, which is how he and Jean came to live in this area.  They had three children. 
Daughter Jeri, who has three children, is a cook in the Glencoe School District after 20 years with American Family.  Jeri is a former Mrs. Minnesota contestant.
Daughter Shelly, who has three sons and lives at Silver Lake, is a homemaker.
Son Cory, who has two children and lives in Monticello, works as a contract equipment painter in Albertville.
Another temporary home for Jean and Goody was a place near Waconia that they rented from Elmer Wagener.  They also lived in a house toward the end of Park Drive, and a Batzli home at Swiss Mountain Farm.
"Then one day we were driving through Victoria and saw this house for sale in back of the Feedmill," said Jean.  "In three days we had it!  We bought it in 1970.  Millie Hanes had lived there and she had big dogs."
"The original owners of our house were the Nordbergs," she continued.  "One day I saw this guy sitting out there in his car, and he was staring at the place so I went out to see what was up and here it was Mr. Nordberg.  I invited him in and he walked around from room to room and sort of got tears in his eyes.  I think he was glad to see that the place was well taken care of."
"My kids loved the house," said Jean.  "All the kids loved that place.  They still call it home.  Cory was born there.  We lived there 17 years."
The house was demolished in May of 2003 to make way for the large city parking lot behind the Feedmill, known today as the Victoria House restaurant.  Many people called the old Johnson home the Jerry Noreen house, since Jerry Noreen came to live there and he was the owner of the Victoria House until 2000.
"Goody never wanted me to work when the kids were little so I was home with them," said Jean.  "My first job was at Tonka Toys in Mound," she said.  "And I worked at Robert's Litho during the holidays.  Then I worked at Thermal Fin here in Victoria for Jim Kilbane.  That's when Jim owned the Creamery and the Feedmill, I believe, and where we did a lot of welding for Polaris."
Then he sold it in the late 1970's to Scott McClain who opened up the Vic-toriana restaurant at the Creamery and had shows and music at the Feedmill. 
"I loved cooking at Victoriana," said Jean.  "I worked Sundays and made good money there." 
"I also enjoyed working at Creative Candies in Victoria with Ruth Hilgers, Phyllis Porubcan, Connie Henninger, Rose Carroll.  They were so much fun.  And Catherine Vanderlinde made me fat because every time a piece didn't turn out, she gave it to me to eat."
Creative Candies was a business venture for some time at the Notermann Building.
"Catherine Vanderlinde is a wonder-ful person," continued Jean.  "I also worked for her at the old cafe and she hired all of my children to work there over the years."
That "old cafe," a vacant and boarded-up old building today owned by the City of Victoria, was previously owned and operated for decades by Joe and Catherine Vanderlinde.  It is located on Main Street Victoria, adjacent to Ruth's home. 
Jean also came to work as a home health aid for Ridgeview Medical Center.  Her latest venture is a new business with her "real" sister called Sisters Cleaning Service. 

Ruth Read, the brunette, was born on January 4^th, 1934, at White Rock, South Dakota.  Her growing up years were at Sisseton, South Dakota, and nearby New Effington.  Her parents were farmers and carpenters.
Ruth had a brother who was acciden-tally shot and died at the age of 15 while pheasant hunting with friends during threshing season.  It happened in 1941 and tears still well in Ruth's eyes at the telling of it. 
Ruth attended school at Fairmont, North Dakota, and Hammer, South Dakota.  A lot of those towns are located at the tri-state intersection with Minneso-ta.
"My dad farmed with horses before buying a tractor," said Ruth.  "He sold one of the work horses and that's when he bought my ornery little Welch pony.  I was about four years old.  When I was 12 years old I'd break a horse once in a while for spending money.  Never got hurt it seemed.
"When I was 13 I'd ride my horse over to my sister and brother in law's and work weekends at their place.  I used to get up at four in the morning to help milk their cows.  So often my head would hit the cow and wake me up.  I remember dozing off on that milk stool.
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