Theresa Grant:  

Life I'm now living in New Mexico with three dogs, Rex, Blaze & Chunk and one cat, Miss EZ Kitty. I've been here a little over three years & I love it. My winter clothing now consists of sweats, if it's really cold! After graduation from St. Greg's in '59 I went to college, but that only lasted one semester & I quit & went to business college. After completing that I bounced around for a while working for a manufacturing company, Joslyn; a music publisher, H. T. FitzSimons; and an advertising company, Compton Advertising. While at Compton I met & married Fred Koch a graduate of St. Ben's. We had a daughter, Kathryn Ann, born on 01Jul62. Our marriage didn't last & we divorced. I never re-married. I worked for the Chicago Board of Education for about 3 years & then went to work for the Chicago Police Department as a civilian. While working for the CPD I also joined the Naval Reserves at worked out at Glenview Naval Air Station. I legally changed our names from Koch to Cook as nobody could ever pronounce it correctly. Besides, all it really was is an Americanization of the name. My daughter, Kathy, was killed in an auto accidnet while riding her bike in Auguest of 1973 while we were living in Barrington. We had moved out there because my Father became Chief of Police there after he retired for the CPD. I had a extremely hard time adjusting to her loss. I still do at times, but for the most part I do OK. In 1976, while still working for CPD as a civilian, I was accepted into the Police Acadamy & became a Chicago Police Officer. During my time with the Department I worked in the 20th District (the old Summerdale, later called Foster Ave. & the one in which St. Greg's is located) & 24th District, the new Rogers Park District. Later I worked in Women's Centeral Detention at 11th & State where I spent about six & a half years, mostly on midnights. I ended my career with the Dep...Expand for more