Alexis Pelton:
CLASS OF 1963
Alvernia High SchoolClass of 1963
Chicago, IL
Loyola University - Arts & SciencesClass of 1967
Chicago, IL
St. Philomena SchoolClass of 1959
Chicago, IL
Alexis's Story
Life
After graduating from Alvernia I went to Loyola U. night school for two years until I could join United Air Lines...during those two years I worked in Admissions at L.U. Then I began
flying for United Air Lines and my love for travel really was fulfilled. I made sure that I went to see all the interesting places in the cities I visited during my layovers. After flying for two years I married and I left the airlines and we lived on several Army bases.
My husband was a graduate of Loyola and a second lieutenant. After about a year my husband went to Viet Nam...
Sadly, he was killed in Viet Nam, as so many others from Chicago...After some time I married Bill Pelton, another military man who had just returned from Viet Nam...We remained in the Army for 4 more years and then he got out and we moved to California
and he worked for Pfizer for the next 25 years. We had two children, Chris, our son who
still lives in California and works in radio and Julie, who is a single Mom who lives with us
with her daughter, Alexa...she is 10...and wonderful...5 years ago Bill retired from Pfizer
as Vice President of Sales and we built our home in Rhode Island, which is right on
Narragansett Bay. He has a boat and this is his dream...although it's very lovely, my
heart will always belong to Chicago...dumb right? I guess you can't take the city out of
the girl.
I love to travel and have traveled to Europe several times. This year my husband and I are taking a cruise leaving from Venice...my favorite place in the world.
The first time I went to Venice was 12 years ago...my husband and I were taking our first
trip together to Europe...we went to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Bavaria and Austria
together and then he had to get back to work...I stayed for another 3 weeks and spent them in and around Italy and discovered VENICE...A few years later I brought Bill to see
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, and although he enjoyed it, it didn't mean the same to him as it had to me. So
hopefully during this trip, he will get to know the Venice that I know and love.
I have lived in many places during my marriage to Bill...we were in California for 20 of our
years together and although the weather is lovely all year long, it's not my favorite place.
After California we moved to Manhattan and for the first couple of years it was nice...it
felt like we lived in a hotel...(and I was the maid)...during that time I had the opportunity
to attend NYU and take creative writing courses...I love to write and tried to get some of
my poetry and short stories published, but that didn't happen...so writing is more theraputic to me, now, than profitable...I figured that one day my granddaughter, Alexa,
may sit down and read about her Granny and realize that I wasn't always an OLD FOGIE!
I have truly been blessed in my life with healthy children and grandchildren and a wonderful and generous husband...My parents passed away long ago, my father in 1980
and my Mother in 1981...then the cruelest loss was my only sibling's death...my brother,
Ron passed away in 1998 of pancreatic cancer. I am very close to his wife, Mary, and she will always be my "SISTER"...plus I am taking Ron's place in the lives of his grandchildren who never got to meet him. Katherine, my nephew's oldest is named after
my middle name and Lauren is my godchild...but when we are all together I'm "kind of"
like their GRANDPA RONNY...
I treasure the years I spent at Alvernia and am still friends with many of the "girls" I met
during my four years there...I think that most schools don't encourage that Bond that
we were so lucky to have.
So that is the Reader's Digest version of the last 44 years since I left Alvernia...I would
love to hear from any of the people who remember me from the class of 1963.
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