Nancy Watkins:  

Life This thing says that your bio can't exceed 4000 characters so I will make it short and sweet. After I graduated from CHS in 1962, I worked for Hartford Insurance Company in Jackson until I met and married Tommy Watkins, who was in the Air Force and stationed at Crystal Springs (who even knew there was a base there?) We met at the old bowling alley at Mart 51. We were married July 1, 1966, after dating 6 weeks! After he got out of the Air Force, we moved to Nashville, TN., where his family lived. I went to work for a bank in Nashville for 23 years before leaving to stay home with my children, who were 7 and 12 at the time. By that time, my husband owned a couple of Piggly Wiggly Stores. We lived in Nashville until he retired in July,2000. He was originally from Birmingham, Alabama and since our daughter, Kim, had gone to school at UA (Roll Tide!) and after graduation, married and stayed in Tuscaloosa, we decided to move here too. Our son, Steve, was starting to college that year and planned to go to UA also. He is now almost finished with his Masters in Education so he can teach social science and coach basketball. My main social activity is going to the games he coaches. Kim now has a 5 year old daughter, Taylor, and since her husband has been transferred, has moved first to Dallas and now to Tampa so we do a lot more traveling than we used to. Fo...Expand for more