Mary Lorimier:  

Life Hi, I am happy you stoped by. I would love to see you and visit with you, but unfortunately I died August 12, 2000. My husband has included excerpts from my life which follow. As many of you know, Mary spent her formative years in Cerrillos, NM growing up in a converted railroad depot, which was surrounded by fruit trees. Her favorite pastimes were pulling the boards for the railroad, with her father’s supervision, and snitching cigarettes so she could feel grown up like her father. At about the age of 2 she broke her leg and wore a cast and or brace for multiple years. She would stuff sand down the cast so the Dr. would have to remove it and she could scratch her leg. As a result, the bones didn’t knit properly, and she spent the rest of her life with a painful leg that didn’t work very well. She loved to attend reunions and see her friends from Sandia. When they decided to hold reunions only every 5 years mary was unhappy because she was afraid she would miss seeing some of her friends who would die in the interim. Now she will miss seeing those who are alive, but maybe those who have passed on are having a reunion of their own in heaven. When she was 12 she was involved in a serious auto accident that left her with a bad shoulder, hip and a permanently bent elbow. All of which caused her pain and led to arthritis in the last several years of her life. Mary loved sports, although she couldn’t participate in them much. In her yearbook she said her happiest memory was when Sandia took State in Basketball. She and her mother had box seats at the Dukes games and she kept up with many of the players after they left Albuquerque. Mary worked for several years as a proof machine operator at banks ...Expand for more