DeDe Patterson Wilken

Wow!!! I went to Jefferson College and recived an Associate Degree in Word Processing however never had a job in the field. I fell into a physical therapy job and have been at Jefferson County Rehab since 1990. I got my license as a Physical Therapist Assistant in 1997. I was married(the first time) in 1993, it lasted for 7 years. I got a divorce in 2001 and was married again in 2004 to Mark Wilken and became a stepmother to Jacob and Mya. After not being able to have children for 10 years I finally had my first baby in 2006 and SURPRISE three months later I was pregnant again. At the age of 36 and 37 I had babies!!!!! I live in Eureka but as I said earlier I still work in Festus so I hang out with new and old friends. For those of you that don't know, one of my best friends is Tracy Graff,our classmate, my sister-in-law. Who would have ever thought that she would marry my brother!!!!!

I remember when we were all at St. Pius getting physicals and we had to hold our urine in a cup, Shari Polk tried to pawn hers off to Kari Kiepe as lemonade and Kari ALMOST drank it.