Catherine Hess :  

Life Yes, Mike and I are still married and enjoying every minute of our life together still. We met in High School and married in Oct. 1965. He had just graduated that year and I was a senior. I know everyone said it would not last. We had our first son, Michael in 1966, and then getting pregnant was so easy, with Michael we thought we would try again. Well, it did not work until 1970, then we had our son, Troy. He will be 35 this Dec. Both of our sons were, and still our the joy of our life. I was lucky and got to stay home with them and be a housemom for 17 years and then Mike got sick and hihohiho off to work I went. I got a job at Kaiser Permanente Hospital and worked in the eye clinic and glasses and contact department. I got to work,over the time, in 10 different Kaisers until my homebase was Walnut Creek and Shadelands. I quess I liked it there cause I was there over 20 years and just recently had to retire. I lost a lot of my hearing and no one anywhere can fix me. But, I am thrilled to be back home. Oh yeh, Mike, he worked as a mechanic for over 25 years and has retired from that field. He works for the Contra Costa Fire Protection Dist. He started there in 1991. He loves working there , it is like one big family. He is a supply guru there. He orders and gets delivered all of the equipment and clothes the Firefighters need. He is off work right now. He has had surgery on his foot and he is home with me, Nurse Ratchett. O...Expand for more