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As some of you might remember, I moved to Greenville in 1972 to live with my mother's sister & her husband, Mr. & Mrs. R.E. McDonald, after my mother's death. I started 7th grade there and finished HS there.
The day after graduation I moved back to my father's house in east Texas in preparation for my marriage to a childhood sweetheart from down there, we broke up before the wedding. I worked as a nurses aide and began college with plans to go into nursing, although I didn't like school & didn't really want to be a nurse, I eventually dropped out when I got engaged again in 1981.
My husband, John, and I married in 1981 and are still married. He was with the Ft. Worth Police Department and eventually took a medical retirement in 1997 due to numerous on-duty injuries. Before our marriage we were in a very serious car wreck, and only through the grace of God did we live to tell about it. Unfortunately, I sustained multiple injuries that have had lasting effects.
Before having children I worked as a dispatcher for the security division of the Bass family in Ft. Worth (think Bass Hall, City Center Twin Towers) and later dispatched for the Burleson Police Department. I had our daughter, Kellie, in 1985 and our son, Patrick, 19 months later in 1987.
I was a stay-at-home mom, which as many of you know, is never at home, but at this practice and that game, the grocery, the doctor, wherever. Other than cleaning other people's houses and babysitting I haven't had a "real" job since 1985.
Our kids are grown now, but neither are married or have children of their own. John and I do have two "grandkitties", one from each child, and that is fine for now.
