Marcheta Dean:  

I married David Hollis in 1973 after becoming engaged at prom in1972 while the Homestead Act band played. David died of terminal brain cancer. Remarried in 1978 to Ronnie Dean of Pinson, AL. We have two children, Amanda and Brad, both happily married. Brad has 2 girls, 7 and 5 , and Amanda, has our 3 year old granddaughter and will be having our 4th grandchild in late March. Love being Mimi and Popee. Live at the lake, love the beach and mountains! Husband retired and I'm still working for the Board of Education. Both parents deceased as of 2001. Enjoying reconnecting to old friends and school chums thru all the social media available now. God has soooo blessed my life over these years and been such an incredible Provider and Protector of my family. Growing old happily, but not always gracefully~ hope to see many of you at our 40th ??????? (who said that) reunion in 2012. Life is a journey for each of us, different to every one of us....but, created and blessed to follow the leading of our Lord~ LOL My first job was at Liberty National, where I got paid very little to be a medical teletype operator. What I remember most about it is that we always got half days off every Friday and we were paid in cash before we left that day.. Our mothers were best friends in high school too....Bonnie Flowers and I would dress up with our moms and go downtown on Halloween and walk around the stores where everyone else was dressed up in the streets. We had a ball, laughing and seeing everythin, but our moms really got into it wayyyyy too much! We tried to stay a little bit behind them as they walked and participated in the fun. My oldest friend was Linda Lowery. We met at our bus stop and every day coming home from school she thought I was too young (just a year younger) to walk ALL the way to my house alone. So, everyday she made sure I got to my road then she walked back to her house. That was in 1960 and we are still friends today sharing our families and she has a GREAT-granddaughter! In 1-2 years, I hope to be retired. I'm going to get there by praying away the mortgage. The wildest thing I ever did in school???????????? I couldn't tell you, I never did anything wild in my life~I guess it would be skipping school in our senior year with Steve Rogers, Bobbie Davidson and a friend of Steve's. We went to Peavine Falls and nearly stepped on a snake on the trail.........would have been hard to explain that one! How do I hope old friends remember me?? I'd like to think they would remember me as caring. I was somewhat quiet in school which may have seemed "stuck up", but when someone took the time to really get to know me, I'd like to think they would not have thought that of me but would have known a caring side of me. What would surprise everyone about me at a reunion? Probably, if they didn't remember a couple of these incidents, it was that I fought.....both in elementary and in high school during my senior year. Not very "lady like", but those still, quiet waters run deep and eventually, there is a temper alive and well. Sad to say, that a couple of times it really erupted. I truly hope no one remembers those times. A do-over??? I have lived a very humbling life. My first, life long friend/husband died early, during that brief marriage we experienced a bad car accident, broken bones, surviving a direct hit from a tornado in May of 1973 in Center Point, his unexpected terminal illness, many many bad expierences during that time which began 6 months into marriage and continued for 2-3 years. After the death and burial of my husband and best friend, God brought Ronnie into my life, completely out of the blue and unexpected. Nearly 3 years later, we married. I have lost both parents, a child, received a cancer diagnosis/surgery and am now 10 years clear. I was held at gun point as a pharmacy tech by a drugged teen wanting the drugs from our pharmacy. I have survived multliple blood clots in my lungs, and even an indicent in the middle of Atlanta airport in March of 2009 where I completely coded out and seemingly left this old world behind. God touched my life, restored breath to my body and I do not know exactly what He has in store for my senior years, but it has to be incredible AND I wouldn't miss it for anything. Now 36 years later, two beautiful children and nearly 4 grandchildren.........life is good and I am happy. I really don't think I would take a do-over.....while these events were not someth...Expand for more