Jeannie Lara-Lugo:  

Geez, where to start? After high school, my marriage to Arthur lasted a year and we divorced. I had moved back with my parents to Chula Vista and then Bonita. I met the dad of my two younger kids at a party in Spring Valley in 1976 and worked in Mission Valley for awhile before my second child, Rose, was born. Shortly after we moved to the Antelope Valley (northeast of the San Fernando Valley)in 1979 and started working for Kaiser and then had my third child, Alex while working and attending school at AV College in 1981. In 1983, I divorced the second husband and stayed in the AV where I met my husband, Oscar, in a bar. He raised all three of my children as though they were his own. He is from Victorville and comes from a large family, like mine. He played basketball (very well)and taught me to love the game and we are HUGH Laker fans. We did very well between both of us working and then our daugther made us grandparents in October of 1999. Our grand daughter, Desiree, was (and still is) a true blessing in our lives. Our oldest son, Manuel, had joined the Marine Corps in 1998 and the next year our younger son went off to college at UC Northridge. Then our daughter was hired on at Kaiser in Woodland Hills, so we felt the time was right to make our move, so we sold our home in 10...Expand for more