Peggy Hughes:  

Life Written in early 2005 and revised 2010. After my freshman year I left St. Joe's in Atlanta, Georgia to live in Seattle, Washington. I graduated from JFK in Burien Washington. Bachelors in Medical Records Administration from Seattle University. At SU I met my husband, Bill. Married in 1974. We have 4 kids ages 33,23,20,15. We have 7 grand kids. I was running for many years then life happened and I gave it up. I am trying to start all over but with an elliptical to shed the extrapounds before submitting my knees, hips and pride to the road. My husband has kept running for 38 years and still can run 5:46 mile (well in 2005 anyway). I just hope to be able to put one foot in front of the other and move. We spend our summers, when I can talk my husband into going to Montana and Idaho to dig for rocks (garnet and Sapphire). This year thunder eggs & sun stone in Oregon. He says it is a lot of work for stones that just sit in a jar in the garage behind a pile of other junk we never look at. I work part time coding at a local hospital. My husband is a PH.D chemist and lab manager at a community college. My other passion is collecting Catholic books from History, Apologetic' s, theology, etc... My 21 year old son is a U.S Marine. As a military brat I never lived any one place very long. Attending 8 schools in K-12. I have many fond memories at ST.Joe's in Atlanta of coach Stone running us around the track and Kenneth Barnes cheering us on. I think I remember him the most since his name alphabetically put him in the seat directly behind me in most classes and he always had a smile on his face. My memories of JFK in Burien Washington are long waits after school in the home ec room waiting for dad to get off work (sometimes stuck till 11pm) were I made good friends with Mary Roux and her siblings. Runs with Cindy Hess, walks to White Center and playing ping pong with Michael Clausen. Patty Ritchie who was always there for me and still is to this day. Our married children are godparents for each others children and remain close friends. I will never forget Sister Dorothy Lentz the French teacher. We remained friends till her death. Living on what is left of my husbands family homestead from 1884, we try and keep a rural touch to the sophisticated Lake Sammamish area. We are known for being the deer place because of the attraction of our small orchard and gardens to the deer that have been displaced with all the development in the area. In the fall we harvest chestnuts to sell. It is almost as much work figuring out how to out smart the deer as it is to harvest the chestnuts. July 2005 I spent almost one month traveling across the country, hitting about 23 states with my parents and my two youngest children. The highlights were visiting most of the homes and old schools I attended in the US. Saint Anthony's is now a great Charter School for the African American children of Atlanta. We toured the school, convent and church. I had to take home a piece of red clay from the school yard. It hasn't changed much inside. St. Joesph High school in down town Atlanta had long been torn down. The church secretary wasn't even aware that it existed. Fort McPherson was under tight security. My son got treated to a southern style hair cut. The barber cut a hair then stopped to talk then cut another hair... 45minutes later he was finished. 2006 Our daughter gave birth to her twins losing one to Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome. Our 11 y.o survived drowning in bathtub from WPW . She went through a four hour heart Cath ablation to correct the errant electrical heart discharges a few days before Christmas. Wolf Parkinson's White has killed many seemingly healthy children and young adults during physical activity. I want to tell everyone please get your children or grandchildren 1 EKG for their first sports physical. An EKG is the only way this congenital condition can be found. Too many kids drop dead even though they have passed sports physicals. 2007 My brother Stephen was paralyzed from plasmacytoma around the Thoracic 12.We are proud of him and how he finds new ways to do old things. He inspires us College Seattle University 1972 to 1976 Degree in Health Information systems. (Medical Records Administration) Workplace I have worked as a medical records coder since graduating from S.U. in 1976 with a degree in Health Information administration. Good Samaritan Nursing home Moscow, Idaho, Virgina Mason in Seattle, Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, Washington. Before graduating I worked at Swedish Hospital in Seattle as a file clerk in the medical records department. Military I never served in the military but being the military brat of a career military man I have many memories of military life. I found out at a young age how small the world is. I left Heidelberg, Germany where My 7th grade class at Mark Twain Village consisted of K-12 and was massive. The following year I was in Atlanta, Georgia going to school at St. Anthony's with only one...Expand for more