Patricia Collins:  

Life I have not lived in the Brookpark, Ohio area since 1977; I hopped on a Greyhound moved to San Diego, stayed there for a while with some friends. I then decided after a year to join the Army. I became a diesel & generator mechanic. For my base station, I lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This is where I performed my duties of a mechanic and recovery specialist. I met a guy from Tennessee there, and had gotten married. Moved to Tennessee in 1980 and have been here ever since. We had two children together and after 13 years of marriage, we parted ways. Our girls are 27 and 28 as of today, our oldest married August 3rd, 2003 and the youngest married February 6th, 2004. I am now empty nested and have my first Granddaughter, she was born June 5th, 2004. I have a first Grandson born September 13th, 2005 and my youngest daughter had my 3rd which was born on my 49th birthday which is a boy, she then went on to give me a girl February 13th, 2009. Now I get the news that my oldest daughter will be having another child January 2010. I am so excited about all my Grandbabies.. I just love them so... I very much enjoy spending time with my girls and their families, plus my friends. I have worked at the Nissan Plant for 18 1/2 years, and then moved on to become a Systems Integrator for First Data Systems, Inc. in Nashville, Tennessee traveling all over the united states 6 days out of the week. I now stay in the area and work for a bank doing multiple things. If you would like to see some pics of my life, I have put them in a photo album out on the Midpark High School Photo Albums section. This is where you will see the joys of my journey that I have gone through and that have brought me this far in my life. I bought my first home almost 5 years ago, it was new so I got to pick the most of what went into it. I have been keepin...Expand for more