Otto Wagner and Mary Rena met on a transcontinental train that was San Francisco bound. The Wagner brothers were moving west because the eldest had a paralyzed leg and needed warner weather. The Rena family, also for medical reasons, headed West. Mary had lost her left kidney. A misbelief that she could not bear children was an important consideration for marrying Otto. He was a boxer, thus he would spend a lot of time on the road. He was also an alcoholic. But two boys and a girl were conceived. The only gifts he ever gave them were the badges that he stole when beating up policemen during his drunken rages. The youngest son, Joe, my father, broke his back when he was run over by a truck while riding his bicycle.