English Teacher Mr. Steven Stary and his wife Diedra will be married for 15 years this year. 

“I had just graduated from Madison and came back to live in Green Bay, I got a job as an interpreter (tour guide) at Heritage Hill, and she trained me,” he said. 

In their daily meeting, Mrs. Stary was told she was supposed to train Stary and another guide. She also cooked for everyone at the park, so she also had baskets of food with her. 

“We all walked up to the Cotton House, and she was carrying her baskets. The other guide and I offered to help carry them for her,” said Stary, and later on she told him she was “impressed.” 

Mrs. Stary told them about the ghost story where they needed to say “Good morning, Priscilla” before they walked into the house. 

Once she got set up to cook, she asked them if anyone knew how to start a fire since the stove she cooked on was woodburning. 

“I said to her, ‘I’ll light your fire,’” added Stary with a laugh. 

They hit it off right away and started dating shortly after that.

Mr. and Mrs. Stary knew each other 13 years before they got engaged, and people told them that “it was about time.”

“It was weird, we were driving home one day and started talking about getting married. We just started planning our wedding. Then it was like ‘Yeah, I guess let’s do it,’” he added. 

The Starys got married at St. Matthew’s right here in Green Bay, and Abbot Neuville, who taught Stary at NDA, married them. 

They wore kilts, which is traditional at a Scottish wedding. 

“Our fencing students made an arch for us to walk through, we took a horse-drawn carriage to Green Isle Park where Mr. Gray played the bagpipes, and we had a pig roast,” said Mr. Stary. 

Attendees were also able to take rides in the carriage around the park if they wanted to. 

His favorite memory with her was when they traveled to Germany and Scotland. 

“That’s the furthest we’ve traveled. In Germany, we saw the places where my wife studied, and we stayed with the grandma of a student her family hosted back when she was in high school,” he added. 

They are both members of the Historical Society, and they still give tours, but now at Hazelwood right by Aldo Leopold school. 

“We worked theatre here for 20 years. I was the Drama Club moderator, and she made all the costumes,for she really enjoys sewing. She also helped me revamp the American Experience curriculum. She cooks for them on our food days and makes all the costumes,” said Stary. 

Mrs. Stary works at St. John Lutheran in Wrightstown as the administrative assistant. 

“Anything you see our secretaries doing here, that’s her, but she does it all since it’s a small school,” he added. 

Stary would describe his wife as “generous, cute, and talented.”