Jane Evans:
CLASS OF 1968
Cooper High SchoolClass of 1968
Shenandoah, PA
Jane's Story
It's been a long time space since graduation. After J.W. Cooper I took a job with Miners Bank in Shenandoah and, while employed there, got married for the first time. While there I decided to quit and adventure to spend a two-year respite to Gaeta, Italy and don't know how, for an 18-year-old, I even survived. Stubborn as I am, I wanted to live with the locals and what an extra-ordinary trip that was! My neighbor, who was Italian and spoke NO English and adopted me, taught me to shop on the local market and was gracious enough to teach me the language and to be capable enough to dicker for pricing in the nature of the true Italian. I had adopted a dog who only understood the Italian language and what an adventure that was!! He peeded many times before he got it. I look back and really l...Expand for more
ove and cherish the adventure for what it was. Many times I had done a sublet on my house In Italy in order to be able to travel to other parts of Europe. I would never have guessed that this would even be possible. Years pass and now I'm in Conyngham and was remarried. Conyngham is a peaceful, rural area where I can have a vegetable garden, know my neighbors (who, I have to say, don't interfere w/anyone's business) and just finish the end of my days. I truly miss my second husband who passed away the week before Christmas in 2010. He was my true heart-mate. I miss him terribly. It is hard going forward without him but I know this is something I have no choice in. I only hope all of you have had the same opportunities in life that I have had. We never know where our paths will lead us.
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