Connie Cunningham:
CLASS OF 1972
Morristown High SchoolClass of 1972
Morristown, IN
Connie's Story
Hi Everyone!
LIFE:
I suspect most of you know that I married Rick Corbin when I graduated in 1972. We were divorced 3 years later, with no children, and have remained friends. I was single for about 1 year and met Bill Cunningham (brother to Becki Cott) and we were married a few months later. We enjoyed traveling on a Harley just about every week-end for several years. We were blessed with a wonderful, successful son. He has given us many, many years of happiness, watching him grow into a fine, respectable, young man with integrity. We spent many hours watching him play baseball, basketball and football over the years. Those were some of my happiest times. He graduated from Mount Vernon High School and attended Cumberland College in Williamsburg, KY on a football and academic scholarship. He remained very involved in sports and his love of baseball led him to his current career. He is now 28 years old and is a Professional Minor League Umpire in the Florida League. We are all very proud of him....obviously. Bill and I continued to ride Harleys (I started riding my own a few years after we were married) and enjoyed traveling on them with lots of friends. As we grew older, many of our friends began selling their Harleys and going their separate ways. It wasn't like it used to be when we all got together and took off for a long week-end ride and my husband became bored with it and decided to persue his love of old cars. We had several and he bought and sold them (just as he had the Harleys over the previous years) until he finally ended up with exactly what he wanted. He found a 1950 Mercury and fell in love with it (he had one as a young man and had fond memories). It was a gorgeous car and we spent alot of evenings at Cruise-Ins with great friends. We enjoyed a few years of this until he was diagnosed with Melanoma Cancer. He fought it off for a couple of years, but unfortunately I lost this wonderful man in October of 1999 to this horrible disease that seems to have touched everyone's life in some way. He truly was a unique man and there will never be another like him. He had more friends than anyone I have ever known and there was a reason for that. He was a very special person.
WORK:
When I left high school and married Rick, I worked at an Insurance company downtown Indianapolis. I left there and went to work as a bank teller at AFNB in Cumberland, IN. From there I was able to get on at Naval Avionics Center in Indianapolis and worked there until 1997 when they sold out to Raytheon and I was layed-off. After that I worked for a small computer stor...Expand for more
e in Lawrence, IN for about 2years until they went out of business. By this time, I had also lost Bill and most of my ambition too. I went to work for a friend of Bill's who owned a trucking company. I worked for him until 2006 when he encouraged me to get back into the Federal Government employment so that I could get enough years in for retirement. I took the first governemt position that I was offered and it was in Dallas, TX. So I sold my home in Greenfield, packed up all my things and my friend and I moved me to Texas. I really loved Texas. I worked for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms there and met alot of nice people. But it was very lonely out there with no family or close friends. So I began applying for positions in different areas where I had some family and friends. I recently accepted a position in Clewiston, Florida. Rick (my friend/previous employer) has a home in Edgewater, FL and I have an aunt and some cousins in the Clearwater area. I also have friends who winter in Eustis, FL, so I am finally within driving distance to some friends and family again. Rick and I have become very close. He had lost his "significant other" to Breast Cancer and we seemed to have alot of other things in common. We both had lost someone very important to cancer, we both love to travel and ride Harley's, we both love horses and 4-wheelers. So we have remained very close and travel together and have lots of fun. I am currently living in a little town called Clewiston, FL, on Lake Okeechobee. I am working for the Army Corps of Engineers in Clewiston, FL and am looking forward to retirement and traveling in the not too distant future.
I am sure Mrs. Wortman would have alot to mark-up on the way this is written, but I tried. I'm not sure, but I think the last I heard, she is still alive. She is a wonderful lady and I feel blessed to have been able to attend Morristown High School and be taught by some excellent teachers. When I look at what the kids today have to deal with, I am so glad that I am past that stage.....actually WAY past that stage!!
I have enjoyed my life. There have been good times and bad times, just as everyone has had, I'm sure. I had a wonderful childhood, the best parents and family a person could ask for, many wonderful friends and experiences as an adult and 2 good marriages (even though the first ended in divorce), the second resulting in a wonderful son. I lost my husband to cancer, and I survived it, even though there were times when I wasn't sure I would. And I am living life and enjoying it again.
Hope you all are too!
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