Arline Keck

Arline writes "Life is so good right now.  Have been retired for about 2.5 months and 
love everything about it.  I love sitting at my dining room window and 
watching the many birds we have in our backyard.  I love having plenty 
of time to practice my viola and play in my flower gardens.  I love 
have control of my house again.  I love being able to work on 
scrapbooks and make cards and knit and whatever else I may want to 
do.  It is glorious.

Garry and I are going on an Alaskan cruise in September.  Beyond that 
we have no plans to travel.  We are such home bodies."

8-6-09                           
 

Opal Cargill Castle

 

Opal is a member of the Class of '59 and lives in Springfield.  She has asked to be on our "other classes" pages.  Opal also informed me that Duane Cargill died September 12, 2006.

8-6-09                          

 

Everett Nevin, Class of '63, of Springfield, died July 19 at age 65. The family chose not to list the cause of death.

He was born Feb. 25, 1944, in Belle Fourche, S.D., to Carey and Helen Johnson Nevin.

 

Survivors include his wife, Sandra Nevin; a son, Carey of Eugene; a daughter, Cathy Jo Gibson of Marcola; two sisters, Joyce Logan-Preis of Colorado and Virginia Dye of Springfield; a brother, Robert of West Virginia; two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

7-25-09                                    

 

 

 

Hazel writes
My husband has retired and we are now moving to Vancouver,  WA where we will
live in the house we built for retirement, 15 years ago.  Dick Jones is
building the fence for our back yard to keep  our two dogs out of the golf
course.  We have just spent  some time there getting everything arranged and
are now back in Virginia to do the final sorting and packing.  We are going
to the Dalmatian Coast the middle of July for three weeks and will do the
big move when we return.   We should be in Vancouver about the 20th of
August.  We have loved living in Virginia  but will not miss the humidity.

7-25-09                                  

I asked Hazel about the ship they had built in China.  She replied
We took the boat up the Erie Canal last summer and spent a month on  Lake
Ontario.  We had a wonderful time.  We were gone for 3 months or so and when
we got  back decided we had to sell the boat as the price for sending it to
Seattle had tripled since the boat had arrived here.  So, we left it in
Annapolis and it has been sold, ironically enough, to a man from Seattle and
it is already there.  It was great fun to build it and we enjoyed having it,
but now it is time to do other things.  We will probably charter boats in
the future, if we want to do that.

 

 

   Eric Skinner

 

 

Hello to all,

Today is the two week anniversary of my new right hip. All titanium and ceramic. Amazing to see two of those in my hips!! Thanks to all who kept me in your thoughts and prayers. Sharon is also doing fine. I am able to move around pretty good and the new hip will support my weight if I just stand. Another week or two and we will be about and around, hoping to see those of you that are close. The 3 weeks that we were at home from winter just flew by, what with all the dr. appts., blood letting, etc. Thank the good Lord it is all done and we won't have to be near a hospital or a doctors office for years!!!

Looking forward to seeing you all sometime soon.  The four walls are closing in on both of us. Take care of all of you and see you soon.

Eric & Sharon

6-28-09                          
 

 

Pat Chesterman
Roberts
Class of '59

Our Betty Chesterman's sister, Pat, asked to be included on our website.  You may not have noticed that we have a section for other classes that attended with us.   It's located in the left hand column of the home page.  Also remember if the name is   written in blue, you can click on it and send a message to the classmate.

6-28-09