Carolyn Burrill:  

Life At 17 and a senior at SRVHS, I met my sweetheart Michael Humeston (class of 1982). Six months before we married (in 1987) he was diagnosed with a rare and fatal blood disease called polyarteritis nodosa. In 1994, he developed leukemia (a secondary infection from the medication) and underwent a bone marrow transplant at Stanford Hospital. He died in March of '95 at the age of 31. Needless to say, I was devastated - I lost my husband, my best friend, my soul mate. A month later on Easter Sunday, I made a tandem skydive at Bay Area Skydiving in Byron to fulfill one of Michael's dreams. From that day on I was hooked! It was truly a gift from Michael that I will treasure always. I now have over 800 jumps and am a licensed static-line instructor. I met my current husband, Mike Burrill, Jr., at a skydiving boogie in Montana in 1998. We were married in Hawaii on Halloween in 1999. I sold my house in Oakley and quit my job at Charles Schwab in San Francisco to move to Southern Oregon. We hauled my dog Riggs, my cat Fub...Expand for more