Mary Knuppe:
CLASS OF 1964
Abraham Lincoln High School 410Class of 1964
Brooklyn, NY
Mary's Story
Mary is from Brooklyn, New York. Mary's schools include Abraham Lincoln High School 410 & Kirkwood College in Cedar Rapids. I earned a 2 year degree in early child development. I met my husband when he was stationed at the old Brooklyn Navy yard. We married in April 1966, just before he was discharged from the Navy. We returned to Iowa... Mary owned & operated a licensed Home Daycare.Service. Many of " my kids" stop by to see us from time to time. You can't take care of kids from birth thru JR High . Without falling in love with them.. Keith & I are the proud parents of 4 children. John our oldest lives with his family in FT Worth, Tx. A strange place for a die hard Viking fan. He works as a plant manager for sealed air. Kristen our only daughter is a preschool teacher in her own day care. Our son Bob lives in Cedar Rapids with his family. He works at Force 10. A large printing co. Bryon our youngest lives in Cedar Rapids With his family. He owns his own business Big Rigger Builders. Specializing in repair & rebuilding of Semi-trucks., cars, school buses, motor h...Expand for more
omes, etc after they have been in an accident. Our kids have blessed us with 9 grandkids, & 5 almost 6 great-grand kids. We have a very good life.
Music Mary likes includes Country music. Books Mary likes Mysterys. Movies Mary enjoys Mystery's, comedies, Action not a fan of the scary movies.. TV shows Mary likes include CSIs' all of them . Law and order . cooking shows Rachael Ray.. & the history channel.. I also love to cook.
. Believe me when I tell you Cedar Rapids is a very fast growing city. Quaker Oats opened a plant here in the early 1900.. We have the official home factory for Quaker Oats.. Now owned by the Pepsi Co.. We also have General Mills, Adm, corn sweetners Rockwell Collins where almost all space & communications products that you see on airplanes & for NASA etc. are built right here.. Sguare D they make electrical products, from junction boxes to fuse boxes. My Husband retired from Terex after 44 yrs. as a Machinists..". Terex makes very large cranes. Before Terex bought the plant from Cedar Rapids Inc. road grading equipment was made there.
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