Mary Gilchrist:  

Life August 14, 2008 After high school I went to Burlington Beauty Academy in Burlington, IA. After graduating from there and passing my State Board exam I worked as a hairstylist in Ft.Madison, IA for 7 mos. before getting married to my husband, Richard. We moved to Phoenix, AZ after our marriage and 3 mo. later we moved to CA. We lived in 3 places in CA in 6 mo. -Blythe, Bakersfield and Monterey Park. Right before Thanksgiving 1967 we moved back to Ft.Madison, IA. My husband got a job with the Sinclair Chemical CO. (fertilizer) and worked there through several changes in the company. It became Arco and then First Miss; both fertilizer. The company closed in 1982 and he was out of work for 13 mo. We ended up living in Ft. Madison 17 1/2 yr. before moving to Henderson, KY where my husband was employed with another fertilizer company (Williams). We lived there a yr. and 4 mo. before moving to Tulsa, OK in Oct. of 1986. We ended up living there for only 9 mo. as the company sold it's fertilizer facilities to Freeport McMoran so we moved to Louisiana in July of 1987. We lived in Slidell for 3 yr. and 9 mo. when we moved to a town near Memphis, TN. (Apr. 1st, 1991) where he was employed once again by a fertilizer company called Arcadian. They sold out to a Canadian company called PCS in 1998 and in 2000 they decided to move the office staff in TN to Chicago. We thought we would move, but after going there househunting we changed our mind and my husband went there in July without me and worked for 7 mo. after which he took retirement. He came back here and worked for a discount dept. store called Steinmart in the Receiving dept. until the end of July of 2006 when he retired again. Our 3 daughters all graduated from high school since we have been here. All 3 have graduated college here and the oldest two have gotten married here as well. April lived here and worked for FedEX until July1st, 2007 when she ...Expand for more