Renee Pelon:  

New Life Update: I have great news-I am going to be Roxie Hart in the musical "Chicago" in November at the Opera House. I beat out some younger girls 33 and 24 at call backs. So I am feeling really good about being 51 and still doing this! You can go to Northland Players website Cheboygan to see me in my get up! Its 11-6 & 7 and 13 & 14. So busy! I live in Cheboygan, Michigan.Up near the Mackinac Bridge. How did I get up here, it's a long story. I am married and have a son, Jace, who is 23 and 2 step daughters, 24 and 20.I married for the 1st time in 1978 and ended in divorce in 1988,but I have a great son out of the marriage.I worked in Dallas after graduation and lived in Maybank on a farm with my first husband. I was a operations manager for a stock brokerage firm down there. In 1987, I went on vacation up here and met a man and he brought me up here in June of 1988.I lived with him off and on for 5 years. Long story, too.I met my current husband in 1993.We were married in 1996.My mother died in June of 2006. She survived a lot, tough lady, heart attack, cancer and finally parkinson's disease took her after 3 painful years of being unable to move. My Father took care of her everyday and refused to let her go to a nursing home. After her death, he kinda gave up and died unexpectedly of a heart attack in January of 2007. They were married 53 years and I guess he just missed her.They never left Mesquite.My brother, Bobby,(Class of 1974)moved up here in February of 2008 with my son.He has had a lot of physical problems over the years.Heart Attack at 29, Tumor the size of a softball at 30.He almost died.So now I have a full house!My son recently, for the first time brought home a girl, and it looks serious. Maybe marriage and grandbabies finally. I am the only person I know, at 50!!!, who is not a grandparent up here.I am a legal secretary and have been for the past 20 years.I do a lot of acting up here in Community Theater at the Opera House and Dinner Theaters up near the Mackinac Bridge.I have done murder mysterys on Mackinac Island with a Chicago touring company and actually have been paid for it!I am on the Board of Directors for both the Follies, which we put on a charitable show each year to benefit different organizations, and the Northland Players. I still love being on the stage after all these years.My mom used to always bring popcorn to the drama club.I wish she could have come up here to see me.Just sent her videos to watch. Still love to dance too. Being a pacesetter started that I guess. We have a home that we actually built from the bottom up on five a...Expand for more