Percy and Pluma followed Lela and Wayne to Promise, where Wayne was employed in a sawmill and Lela could use their help with her four young children. Their son Lyman had recently married Ivy McEwan, a childhood friend from Sister Butte School in southern Saskatchewan, and brought her to Promise for a reunion of most of the family.

By 1947, Lyman had completed a degree in agriculture at Western Montana College with a focus on soil conservation motivated by the dust storms of the “dirty thirties.” When he proposed marriage to Ivy, she was teaching in Victoria, British Columbia, where they married. During World War II, Ivy had worked in Ottawa in the savings bonds department, but after the war when her job ended she had returned to teaching.

Bob Haverfield, Sr., in his Navy uniform somewhere in Florida, 1942.

Meanwhile, in 1943, having served in the U.S. army and still serving in the navy, Bob had met and married Beulah Beatrice (Bea) Kivi in Seattle. When the war ended in 1945, he settled into life with Bea and their son Robert Allen, Jr., who had been born in 1944. Bob, Sr., and Bea also finished raising Barbara, Bea's daughter from her first marriage. Son Gregory Ward was born in 1946 and daughter Kathleen Louise in 1952. Bob learned the trade of carpentry to support his family. Bea had been working as a neon-sign designer before marrying Bob, and she continued with this work for many years, making significant contributions to the Seattle cityscape.