Cindy Merritt:
CLASS OF 1967
Emporia High SchoolClass of 1967
Emporia, KS
Cindy's Story
Life
Got married in 1969, big mistake! Wasted 17 years of my life! Had a son, moved to Colorado. Moved to Missouri in 1974, lived in the Springfield area. Had a daughter in 1976. Moved to St. Joseph, MO in 1979. Got divorced in 1987, best thing I had done in my whole life! Managed a super market for 13 years. Went on a blind date in 1990, married this wonderful person within six months. Life has been good since then. He is a local boy, never lived out of this county and probably never will. We live on the family farm that he grew up on. He has two daughters and I have two children, we have seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Three great-grandchildren!!! Figure that one out!
His name is Glen Merritt, Jr. He works for the Missouri Dept. of Conservation and I am a contract agent for the Missouri Dept. of Revenue. I run the license bureau in our town. We collect sales taxes on vehicle sales, issues license plates and drivers licenses. It is quite hectic at times. My daughter works with me as my office manager.
My immediate family moved from Emporia in 1970, they moved to Stockton, MO. They are still in that area.
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t to Emporia two or three times a year. Still have alot of family there and have a family reunion there every summer. Glen enjoys our visits to Kansas, he used to farm and he is always amazed how flat Kansas is compared to where we live.
I enjoy our grandchildren. One of our granddaughters, Lexie, is four and she spends a lot of time with us at the office. She doesn't know a stranger, talks to everyone. Always wanting to wait on customers and give them advice, she has actually told a couple of them they needed to go up stairs to get their tax receipt (and she was right!) When we do a drivers license transaction we have to ask them if they would like to be an organ donor, and she has vistied with some customers and in her conservation she asks them if they would like to be an organ donor. That was quite a shock the first time I heard her say that. She spends one or two nights a week with us. Some times when she wants to go home with me she will ask if grandpa misses her, when I tell her that he does miss her she says that she had better go home with me then. How could you say no to that?
Hope to hear from some of my fellow classmates.
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