Kathleen Parker:  

What a wild and wonderful life it has been so far! Looking forward to much more of the same. After leaving Owensville the day after I graduated from OHS I lived for a short time in St.Louis and then in Columbia and back to St. Louis before moving to Northwest Indiana (35 miles southeast of Chicago) in 1971. Spent the next 35 years there where I met and married my wonderful 2nd husband Chuck O'Day--renewed my faith in "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again". He was so worth the wait. He drastically changed me and everything about my life. After he retired we moved (in 2004) to southwest Florida where Chuck had been vacationing since he was a teenager. Sadly he died suddenly in 2006 but the 24 years we had together left me without one ounce of anything but gratitude for having him in my life. We were raising our 3 grandkids so his passing left them without the best Poppy in the world but God had a plan for us---and had it not been for these 3 great kids I would have been flat on the floor in grief. No time did they give me for that, thankfully. They keep me standing still. I still work--have the best ...Expand for more