Lucy Ontiveros:  

Hello Classmates and old friends, It has been great being able to reconnect with friends from the past, and to find out what has been going on in their lives after leaving good old Bassett High. After I graduated from Bassett, I attended Rio Hondo College and graduated from the LVN nursing program. I moved and worked in Montebello for an orthopedic private practice for many years. I managed the back office, and was also a limited X-Ray tech. I enjoyed it very much. I managed to stay single till I was 33. I was having too much fun being single and independent, and was strongly influenced by the women's lib movement at the time! I quit working to raise my two boys and became a housewife. I actually became my mother,(which I said I never would. Not that it was a bad thing, it was just that I swore that I would not become that domesticated!), becoming involved in my boys school, PTO member, room mother, team mom..the Whole Enchilada! Had to even trade in my 78 convertible VW bug for a van to participate in carpooling! We lived in Walnut during those years. Must say that I have no regrets for putting my career on hold. I have many wonderful memories of watching my boys grow up. They are now 21 and 25. I have been blessed, for they are great sons and we are very close. Marriage did not last and divorced in 2002. I moved to Covina Hills, and started my own business of interior decorating and faux finish painting. In 2002 I returned to Rio Hondo College to finish my AA. I took some other artistic classes, such as painting, vocal classes, theater and joined the college choir. I realized that I had a voice and a passion for singing and the theater. I was a sopra...Expand for more