Cindy Barber:  

Hi everyone! I guess it’s about time I shared what’s been going on in my life over these many years. After graduation, I accepted a position as an Offense Report Clerk with Va. Beach Police Dept, This is where I met my first husband, Warren Bailey, a police officer and also a 1967 graduate of PA. We were married on New Year’s Eve 1976. We were excited to welcome our firstborn, a beautiful daughter in 1979. Warren became ill in the early eighties. It was determined that his only option to get better would be to receive a heart transplant. While we waited for a new heart to become available, we welcomed our second child, another lovely daughter in 1983. I took a break from working to be a full-time wife and mother. I returned to the workforce in the fall of 1986 and went to work with the Chesapeake Police Department in a very similar position to the one I held with the VBPD. Warren finally received his new heart in Sept. 1989. .Sadly, he developed an infection and died on September 21st, just after his 40th birthday, leaving me with our two daughters now ages 10 and 6 years old to raise. A couple of years later, a friend introduced me to her husband’s co-worker, Sam. We hit it off and since I felt my daughters needed a father figure in their lives, Sam and I married I the spring of 1992. Unfortunately, I realized shortly after, that Sam struggled with alcoholism and I made the difficult decision to divorce him. I later learned that Sam died a few years later from his drinking. I remained single, raising my girls until 2005 when I met and married a wonderful man, Bill Barber. He was the Chief Engineer for WTVZ Channel 33. During our marriage, both of my daughters married wonderful men and blessed us with three grandchildren, two girls ages 15 and 12 and a grandson almost 4 years old. During my marriage to Bill, he dealt with many health problems and due to a serious fall where he suffered a severe fracture of his leg, he became confined to a wheelchair. At the end of April 2...Expand for more