Melissa Trosper O'Donnell

I was actually little known at Collinsville HIgh School. Not many people noticed me but I had a hella good time observing others. My best friends were Darryl D Dickerson, Lowell Mansfield, Pamela Dickerson (class of 1978) Rosalind and Joe Wells, Don and Robert. We were few but we were mighty friends. It is sad that we lost track of each other over time.

I left Collinsville and moved to Fort Lee VA with the one man that I married. We had two beautiful girls. Moved to Riverside CA, this is where he and I separated. Moved to Springfield MO fell in love with my first adult woman. Many were to follow. Moved to St. Louis MO, Fairbanks AK, Topeka Ks and back here to OKlahoma. Met the current woman of my dreams and we are engaged to be married.

Gloria and I married in Eureka Springs, AR, June 19, 2011. We had a private ceremony at Pond Mountain Resort with two dear friends from Mobile Alabama and our grandson Aiden. Aiden walked Gloria down the plank...or rather boat dock where we stood out on the pond to recite our vows. Last week we went back to Eureka Springs to celebrate our one year anniversary and it was awesome. This time we went alone and stayed at the Sugar Mountain Resort...oh, man was our stay sweet.

We have been through a lot this last year together and it has been tough but I've never once doubted my decision to marry this remarkable young, beautiful woman. God has blessed me so over abundantly in life, in many ways, but my greatest riches are my family and no amount of money could be offered to replace any member.



My Favorite saying is: Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant.
If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions
in which we can succeed."

-- Denis Waitley

My favorite story from high school was the Junior prom. I went with Darryl and Pam went with Lowell. We partied all night and made fools of ourselfs in out private party. We went to Collinville park and played on the swings and just running around. We went to Oolagah lake and partied some more. Darryl drank so much that he got totally toasted and to sober him up we made him walk around barefooted in that cool wet, frosty grass. He really was my best friend and knew me unlike anyone else there. We had many good times.