Frances Brent Whitted was a widow with two young girls in the mid 1920s, living in Pensacola, Florida, with several brothers and sisters in the Brent family home. One of the men who caught her fancy and won her over was an officer and a gentleman, Lt. Harold Foster Fick, stationed at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola.

In 1927 she went up to Savannah, Georgia, leaving her two girls with their aunts and uncles, to babysit her two young nephews, Alba and Brent, the sons of her sister Cora Brent Warren and her husband Alba Sr., while they went off on a business trip. Enter stage left, Harold, known to all as Skipper. When her two nephews returned from riding horses, she told them to get themselves cleaned up because they were going to go to a wedding. When they asked whose wedding, she replied, "Mine!" The two boys, ages eight and eleven, were the only witnesses to the February 21st wedding. When the newlyweds returned home they sent out an announcement of their marriage to family and friends. There are no photographs of this wedding nor of her first wedding which was a low-key affair due to deaths in the family and the end of the Great War.

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