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Packers' three-month road trip led to Lambeau's first divorce

Cliff Christl started gathering oral histories with former Packers and others associated with the team in 2000 and will continue to gather them as Packers historian. Excerpts from those interviews will be periodically posted at www.packers.com

A lifelong Packers fan, Patricia Vandeveld worked closely with and was a good friend of Marguerite Lambeau, Curly Lambeau’s first wife. They worked together at the H.C. Prange department store in Green Bay from 1940 until 1959. Curly and the former Marguerite Van Kessel were married in 1919, five days after the Packers were founded, and were divorced in May 1934.