Faye Trainer McSurdy:  

CLASS OF 1961
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Jefferson hills, PA

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Life As I write this, our 45th class reunion (CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!?? 45 YEARS) is just three weeks away. It's hard to know where to begin with a bio at the age of 63 but her goes. For the last reunion, my husband, Jim McSurdy, and I were living in northern Virginia, just off I-95 where we had moved in 1985. Jim was a steel worker and the future looked pretty bleak in 1983 when his plant shut down and unemployment was at 28%, so we relocated. We lived in Virginia until last October when we both were able to take 20-year retirements from our jobs. We moved to Donegal PA in the Laurel Highlands near Seven Springs -- a beautiful area and we enjoy living there very much. We are also just 1/2 hour from Latrobe and Steelers training camp!!!! My friends who retired to Florida and Myrtle Beach asked why in the world we would move north; we told them because it's "home", and it definitely is. We go to Pirate games at PNC Park and, the first night game we went to and saw that gorgeous city as the twilight turned to dark and all the city lights came on, the emotion was indescribable. This was a second marriage for both Jim and me ...Expand for more
but we celebrated our 28th anniversary this year so I think we'll make it. We are very blessed and thankful for what God has given us. We have four grown children and five grandchildren ranging in ages from 3 to 25. Our daughter is still in Virginia with her two children -- Ricky 25 and Alyssa 18. We miss them but we're only 3.5 hours away so we visit often. The cost of living is exorbitant there -- it was always high but now it's really hard to live there. We hope she and the kids will relocate here where it's more sane. The rest of our kids and grandkids live here in PA so we get to establish a new type of relationship with them now. By this reunion there will be many more of us retired than at the last one. I remember Richard Fink being so surprised that he was one of the few who had reached that status by the age of 58. Retirement is wonderful. Hard to believe you can stay home every day and still have an income for the rest of your life. I love our reunions and am looking forward to seeing all of you at this one. It's like seeing brothers and sisters every five years. Take care and love you all, Faye
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