Sinteks celebrate 60th Anniversary

Saratoga residents Jack and Dorothy Sintek will celebrate 60 years of married life in Carbon County this year.

Dorothy moved to Carbon County in 1952, the year she graduated high school. She moved to Rawlins the day after graduation and went to work at Memorial Hospital, where she was employed for two years.

Jack graduated from high school while in the Army in 1951, then served in Korea and was discharged in 1952. He also worked for the Highway Department and Sinclair.

The two of them met at a dance at the Eagles Lodge in July of 1953, and their first date was to dance at the Elk Mountain Pavilion, where the Harry James Band was playing. They became engaged in January of 1954, and later married June 28, 1954 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Rawlins.

They lived at 303 W. Spruce St. for about six months, and then moved into a basement apartment owned by Alice and Whitey Stewart. Jack went to work for Childress Electric in 1955, and their daughter, Mary D'Neil, was born a year later on April 17, 1956.

"The Stewarts bought another house, and loaned us the down payment to buy the house we were living in on 9th St.," Jack said.

Jack and Dorothy's son, Brad Alan, was born May 29, 1957, and two years later they bought Childress Electric in March of 1959. The couple sold their house on 9th Street, and were able to pay the Stewarts' loan in full.

Jack owned Childress Electric from 1959 until March of 1975, and he and Dorothy moved to Saratoga in 1976. One year later they started Saratoga Construction and Electric.

"In 1977 we started Saratoga Construction and Electric, and in 1979 we put in the Bramdee Subdivision," Jack said. "We sold SC&E in 1982 and bought the Yankee Jack in 1979, and we moved a little cabin to the property. In 1982, we cut logs to build on to the small cabin, and in 1983 the two of us added a living room and two bedrooms to the small cabin. We did all the work together and have enjoyed our cabin immensely, and we have built a shop, bunk house and a generator house."

Jack got his real-estate license and worked under a couple of brokers, until he got his broker's license in 1990. He then started Sintek Realty, which he sold in 1995.

Jack credited working together as what has made their marriage last for six decades and counting.

"We always worked together, and over the past 60 years we have purchased and sold well over a hundred properties," he said. "We are happy to say we had $500 between us when we got married....and we still have it. We are extremely proud of how our children have succeeded, and of our beautiful granddaughters. We hope that all of them have as long and happy lives as we have had."

The Sintek's invite friends and family to attend a combined anniversary celebration reception with Dorothy's sister and brother in-law, Cheryl and Rolly Bowen. The Bowens will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. See their story on page 3. The reception, for both couples' anniversaries, takes place at noon Saturday, at Elk Mountain Park in Elk Mountain.

 

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