In re the Dissolution of the Marriage of Pence

Wife has appealed from the money features of a marriage-dissolution decree. The wife is 50 and husband 57 years of age. They were first married in 1941, were divorced for about six months in 1956, and remarried; they have one child who is grown and emancipated. Wife was 16 years old when they were first married. She did some other menial work out of the home and then assembly line work at Omark Industries from 1956 through 1971, testifying that she put their daughter through college. In 1970 she had cancer surgery, and she has a spinal fusion (it is not clear from the record whether this was…