LOCAL SPOTLIGHT
Charlie & Rita MEET THE HERZIKS
LOCAL COUPLE SHARES WHAT MAKES THEIR MARRIAGE AND THE TOWN OF WEIMAR SO SPECIAL BY EMILY HENDERSON
The Herziks have been happily married for 26 years and it all started with loads of manure – we bet you haven’t heard a love story that begins like that! While working for M-G, Charlie handled purchasing and Rita was his fertilizer contact. Ten years of talking shop over the phone somehow led to love. So much so, Rita took a leap and left Houston to move to Weimar, where her new husband Charlie was the only soul she knew. “I think the hardest thing I ever did was sell my home in Houston and quit my job and move here with only two thousand people. It was an adjustment for sure,” Rita admitted. “We were freshly married and I’d come home for lunch. She would be sitting on the couch then, and she would still be sitting there when I got home at the end of the day,” Charlie chuckled. “I could tell she was struggling. I asked her over and over, ‘How can I help? What can I do?’” he reminisced. “I knew no one and had nothing to do! I had worked since I was thirteen and not having a job was very depressing,” Rita recalled. “I remember walking into the pharmacy. John Anders was the Pharmacist and I asked him if he needed help. He said, ‘I can only pay $5,’ and I replied, ‘I’ll pay YOU, just let me go to work and get out of the house!’ And from that day forward, my heart opened up to Weimar and I just fell in love with the town as I met the people here.”
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Top, we challenge you to try and find warmer smiles in all of Weimar; bottom, Charlie met Rita while he was working at M-G in Weimar.
