Cynthia Bowington:  

Life I married in 1973 and moved to Washington State and have two sons, Scott Sheppard who is 30 and Ryan Shepprad who is 28 years. I'm a grandmother of three, 2 boys and a girl, all VERY PRECIOUS! I divorced in 1986 and remarried in Nov 92. My husband Terry and I love to boat on the Puget Sound, we have a 29 foot SeaRay. We vacation each year in the San Juan Islands, which are absolutely breath taking. I come home to Indy to visit my siblings every Aug for a couple of weeks. Its sad that our family has gotten smaller as we lost our sister Pam and our younger brother Kenny. Mt St Helen's is pretty much in my back yard, about a 2 hour drive from me in Gig Harbor. I'll never forget May 18, 1980, it cannot be described. The week-end before the mountain blew, we were camping up the mountain with our children. The mountain burped up some ash and it looked like dirty snow. I told my ex-husband that we should be leaving the mountain as I didn't feel safe. I just shook knowing that we were so close the week-end before it BLEW! The Lord was truly watching over us. I worked at Harborstone Credit Union at McChord AFB WA almost 20 yrs grand total as an Investment Counselor and a...Expand for more