Mary Lachance:  

Life How do you compress so many years of my life into a few paragraphs, I don't brag, I have not become a Queen, been elected, or won anything, I have just live my life as we all do, mixed with love, hard work, wonder, humour, joy, sorrow, and least of all tragedies, all of which make us who we are today. I got married at nineteen, a widow at thirty-four. I married again four years later to a fellow Southwest graduate (James W. Smith Jr., Class of 1965) and we enjoyed a marriage of twenty three years. I have been single for about four years and have decided to travel through life as a single woman for a while. Career wise, I have been in healthcare finance since God know how long. I even owned my own medical receivables management company for about ten years and consider that my Masters and Doctorate of life. I sold the company some nine years ago but, still tied to the field via other career choices. I guess we tend to stay with what we know. I have lived in South Florida all these years and still love it here. I ...Expand for more