MaryJane Baker:  

Life I am living in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area with my youngest son, Joe age 20 and our three cats, Annie,Smokey,Katie and Samson my dog. My oldest son Brian is in Tempe, AZ working as a game tester. He has a BA in Video Game Design. I became widowed in 1999 when my husband Stan, a Detroit Edison supervisor and my children's father, passed away after a long struggle with COPD, a lung disorder. I am a graduate of U of M Dearborn with a Bachelor of General Studies in English, History and Psychhology. I started out my college career at MSU but had to come home in '71 due to family finances. I worked as a switchboard operator, then a legal secretary till I met and married my first husband in '73.Seven years later I had divorce and a Degree from UM-Dearborn and a job at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant in Monroe, MI. I was at Fermi II until 1984, working in the Quality Control/Quality Assurance department,starting as a data entry clerk and working my way up to Assistant Documentation Supervisor for the Daniel International Corporation the managing contractor for Detroit Edison on site. I met my second husband,Stan Baker at Fermi in'83, married in '84, moved with him in '85 to Algonac in the Port Huron area when he was transferred by Detroit Edison to their Belle River power plant up north. We moved to Ypsilanti, just east of Ann Arbor in '86, I had Brian in Feb. of '87, then Joey in Dec. '88. I stayed home with the boys till '94, then worked as a substitute secretary for the Willow Run School district, then in '96-'97 for a carpet/air duct cleaning company as a customer service rep. My husband, Stan became ill in '92, and by '97 had already had one long hospital stay and came home on oxygen. I cared for him in our home from '96 when he was forced to retire due to his health, till he died in Feb. of'99. In 2002 -2004 I workd for the University of Michigan Health System as an office associate. I workedpart time at Meijer till 2009 and am looking forward to the future.I would ...Expand for more