Angela was someone I remember quite well at TCM, being she was one of my room mates in the little girls dorm and again in the teen girls dorm. We were pretty close in age, so we did alot of things together. One of the things I remember about Angela was she copied me alot in the teen girl's dorm and it irratated me to no end. I went to Aunt Peggy, and told her I was so tired of being copied in everything I did by her. Aunt Peggy said, "You should take that as high praise, her wanting to be like you"! Of course, me being stubborn and a brat, didn't like it at all...Now all grown up, I can see where that would've been a compliment. As an adult, thru several conversations that Angela and I had ,let me know we had very different ideas of how things should be in life. The last time I got to see her was when she and her husband drove up to Pigeon Forge, TN for an alumni reunion in 2007. I didn't reconize her at all, it had been several years since I had gotten to see her from the last reunion I attended in 92. Certainly wasn't prepared for her free spirit look she had started sporting from the last reunion. And she thought that was funny, that we all were shocked !! Angela definitely lived her life simply and for the cause in which she believed in... I hate to see her life end at 45...wow...so young! So many memories of her... RIP Angela...
Angela was my best friend in school. She got to spend the night with me, which was unusual to get to spend the night with an "outsider" which was was what off campus kids were called. And on top of that, I was Baptist!!! Aunt Thelma caught us climbing out of the dorm window one day, and she called us in and said that she could see up our dresses and that is not what young ladies did. I told her what actually happened was that I was reaching for something Angela threw out the window, and she pushed me out. She understood how that kind of thing could happen, but don't do it again. She also asked me why Angela was my best friend, when I never got in trouble and Angela always seemed to be looking for it, and I told her I needed a way to express my bad side, and she expressed it for me. Aunt Thelma, being the wonderful person she was, said she understood that too.
When Angela left the mansion unexpectedly, she called me a lot and we wrote letters, and she visited me several times over the years, before she was married and after she divorced. Every once in a while, I would answer the phone and it would be her, she would be checking in, and she would be somewhere new. We were two totally different people, that had two totally different lives, but she was a wonderful person to know. Even though I lost contact with her after she went to Colarado, I thought of her often. I will miss knowing she is somewhere out there, and miss the hope that we will meet again down here on this Earth. She was an adventurous person that was never, never afraid of anything, or anybody.
She made my years at the Mansion unforgettable, and I will never forget her.
Sabrina Briggs (Walpole)
Angela was someone I remember quite well at TCM, being she was one of my room mates in the little girls dorm and again in the teen girls dorm. We were pretty close in age, so we did alot of things together. One of the things I remember about Angela was she copied me alot in the teen girl's dorm and it irratated me to no end. I went to Aunt Peggy, and told her I was so tired of being copied in everything I did by her. Aunt Peggy said, "You should take that as high praise, her wanting to be like you"! Of course, me being stubborn and a brat, didn't like it at all...Now all grown up, I can see where that would've been a compliment. As an adult, thru several conversations that Angela and I had ,let me know we had very different ideas of how things should be in life. The last time I got to see her was when she and her husband drove up to Pigeon Forge, TN for an alumni reunion in 2007. I didn't reconize her at all, it had been several years since I had gotten to see her from the last reunion I attended in 92. Certainly wasn't prepared for her free spirit look she had started sporting from the last reunion. And she thought that was funny, that we all were shocked !! Angela definitely lived her life simply and for the cause in which she believed in... I hate to see her life end at 45...wow...so young! So many memories of her... RIP Angela...
Laura Knighton (Curtis)
Angela was my best friend in school. She got to spend the night with me, which was unusual to get to spend the night with an "outsider" which was was what off campus kids were called. And on top of that, I was Baptist!!! Aunt Thelma caught us climbing out of the dorm window one day, and she called us in and said that she could see up our dresses and that is not what young ladies did. I told her what actually happened was that I was reaching for something Angela threw out the window, and she pushed me out. She understood how that kind of thing could happen, but don't do it again. She also asked me why Angela was my best friend, when I never got in trouble and Angela always seemed to be looking for it, and I told her I needed a way to express my bad side, and she expressed it for me. Aunt Thelma, being the wonderful person she was, said she understood that too.
When Angela left the mansion unexpectedly, she called me a lot and we wrote letters, and she visited me several times over the years, before she was married and after she divorced. Every once in a while, I would answer the phone and it would be her, she would be checking in, and she would be somewhere new. We were two totally different people, that had two totally different lives, but she was a wonderful person to know. Even though I lost contact with her after she went to Colarado, I thought of her often. I will miss knowing she is somewhere out there, and miss the hope that we will meet again down here on this Earth. She was an adventurous person that was never, never afraid of anything, or anybody.
She made my years at the Mansion unforgettable, and I will never forget her.
Laura Knighton Curtis
1979 to 1983
Tupelo Christian Academy