Joanne Nelson:
CLASS OF 1974
Hickory High SchoolClass of 1974
Hickory, NC
Valley Springs Elementary SchoolClass of 1974
Asheville, NC
Vance Elementary SchoolClass of 1974
Asheville, NC
Mountain View Elementary SchoolClass of 1974
Hickory, NC
Roberson High SchoolClass of 1974
Asheville, NC
Joanne's Story
Life
I'll make this real simple (but not necessarily brief) and put forth my bio in bullet fashion.
Full name- Jo Anne Boswell Nelson.
Born 11-06-55 in Asheville, NC.
Parents- Eddie and Elinor Boswell.
Sisters- Janet and Ginny (Virginia) Boswell.
Spouse- Darrell Nelson (grad. Hudson High '67 & Caldwell CC '72)
'Then' photo- senior year at L-R ('78)
'Now' photo- church photo Feb. '08
My school years are as follows:
'61- '62 kindergarten at West Asheville Presbyterian (Mrs. Mastin).
'62-'65 (grades 1-3) at Vance Elementary in (west) Asheville, NC.
'65- Dec. '69 (grades 4-8 (1st sem.)) at Valley Springs Elementary
in (south) Asheville, NC.
Jan.-May '70 (grade 8 (2nd sem.)) at Mountain View Elementary in
Hickory, NC.
'70-'71 (grade 9) at College Park Junior High in Hickory, NC.
'71-'74 (grades 10-12) at Hickory High in Hickory, NC.
1973 (7 weeks, June- Aug.) at NC Governor's School in Choral Music
'74-'78 (4.5 years) at Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, NC.
double majored in Music/ Christian Education- B.A. Degree.
5-23-81 married Darrell Nelson of Hudson, NC.
have been married for 27 wonderful years so far and still
going strong.
were never blessed with children, sadly.
We are still living in Hickory and I work fulltime as a clothing alterationist. As you can see I haven't used my education, occupationally. But in my personal time I use it alot! In my free time I enjoy constructing vocal scores for Christian songs and then recording myse...Expand for more
lf singing the parts. Being a mezzo-soprano comes in handy for that, having a mid-ranged voice. I record by using a dual cassette karaoke machine audio patched into my Pioneer stereo, just domestic equipment so therefore not studio quality sound. One day I would love to have some of my music arrangements published for other groups to do, if only I knew the avenues. I'll have to keep working on that.
I also, in free time, enjoy writing about Christian life commentary and sometimes political commentary. Then someday when I retire and have the TIME to do this I am planning on being a writer. Don't know if I'll ever get any of my writings published. Getting published would be nice, but yet my main purpose is putting forth the thoughts that are in my head, on paper. So I definitely look forward to retirement 'cause I have plans. Of course another daydream I have for retirement is for Darrell and I to get a couple of motorcycles and start wearing a lot of black leather. LOL! That would be fun; don't know if it will happen but it would be fun!
Another very important part of my bio is that I became a Christian at a very young age. I searched for the Lord very early in childhood because I knew something big was definitely going on in this world and I wanted so bad for my young mind to be able to grasp it. When I finally did learn about the Lord/Christ, I was so amazed and so elated that I began walking with Him through life and still walk with Him today. It could not imagine doing otherwise. JoAnne :)
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