Janet Thompson:
CLASS OF 1965
Maplewood-Richmond Heights High SchoolClass of 1965
Maplewood, MO
Lyndover SchoolClass of 1958
Maplewood, MO
Janet's Story
After attending our 10th year reunion in 1975 (was it THAT long ago?!!?), my husband, Jay, and I got divorced and I moved back to Maplewood from Kirkwood, MO. I have never remarried. I continued to live in the St. Louis area, to include Maplewood and St. L. City (across the street from the Missouri Botanical Garden, where I worked for 5 years). In 1998, I bought a little cottage in Webster Groves, where I settled into the legacy of a single woman in Webster; a houseful of cats and silly hats while gardening! Life was lovely and peaceful until three years later and two weeks after the WTC disaster, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and began my treatment, which included surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. I am pleas...Expand for more
ed to report that I am, to date, cancer-free. But my illness, a struggling job market in my career field, and a realization of the impermanence of it all left its mark and, after losing my job and not finding anything that would allow me to live my quiet little life, I sold my home and am now full-timing in a small motorhome with my now 4 cats. Yes, 4. I have been in the Southwest for the last several years, but am looking forward to returning to the St. Louis area from wherever I may be then for our 45th or 50th anniversary! Call me silly, but I miss the color green and all the humidity!
I'd love to hear from anyone (and I recognize a lot of names here) and will make every effort to write back and renew old friendships.
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