Maureen Casey:  

I have done and gone through quite alot of things since graduation from Northern High School in 1979. I feel like I will never get out of school as my jobs keep going under. I always did like school so that's not so bad at least my skills keep getting updated. I just wish it gave me time to do other things while attending college. For me it is intense studying and with age each time it gets to be more of a challenge to maintain my good grades. I will slowly update this as there have been various changes in my life. It would take me hours so a little at a time. It will in time add up and maybe update people who may wonder what ever happened to Maureen. First of all I married right after graduating from high school and and lived in Friendsville until 1997. I had one daughter in December of 1984 fie years after my marriage to R.A. Peterson. I worked in various places around the area the last being Faymore Sewing Factory in Confluence PA. THe job went under due to Nafta. (It has hurt everything.) Went to Garrett Community College for the fastest two years in my life and got a degree in office technology. (Stress filled and fun actually when I look back now. Not much time for anything but school.)After doing this moved to North Carolina in 1997 trying to find a job. Alas as my professer always said not what you know whom you know. I went to work for a trigger manufacturing company in the assembly department. I liked my job at first and the pay was great. I was a machine operator there and did not use the degree I had studied so hard for. Marriage problems increased with my husband of 21 years and in the Fall of 2001 a divorce was finalized. He had mental problems as well as being diagnosed as paranoid schitzophrenic (? spelling). I could not live with someone who continuosly kept me on the edge and in debt as he had in the past. I was tired of trying to get him to help himself and I could not do everything for him. I felt great after my divorce and I lost an enormous amount of weight that I had gained over the years. My mother told me a month after I had seperated you look happpier than you ever looked and I felt great going way down to a size 6-7 in clothing. (Ashamed to say how much I weighed prior.) The weight loss made me feel like a new person and everyone wondered how it had happened. I guess to some degree maybe stress and just forgetting to eat while trying to keep up with a full time job, house, and two new car payments which my ex left me with. I made it and had money left over at the end of each month which I did not have with my husband. I dated people whom I met online. Scarey maybe, but I met some great guys who treated me wonderful. Not saying it is for everyone but the best way I could meet people with working and not knowing people down here. It's hard to get to know people when you work a 12 hour shift job and did not grow up in the area. Besides in this area you could meet guys whom are worse than what is on the net. I found that being single had it's benefits as well as it's bad points. I learned to fix quite a few things on my own, things normally done by a man but it just gave me more determination and I knew that I could survive without a husband. I owned my home and no not thanks to my first husband. I paid my cars off and continued working. Throwing myself into my job and also trying to maintain my home and yard. I went out and got new clothes that I had denied myself over the years. My daughter who was 16 at the time was even getting excited about me looking better than I had in a long time. Still I wanted to find someone to share my life with as life is a little too short not to have someone to share the special times with. I did remarry a guy whom I met on the net and married in 2003. He lived in Weaverville NC 15 miles north of Asheville NC on a mountain in a cold old cabin. I had to carry wood in to heat the house in a fireplace when I lived there. I learned to hate the beautiful mountains that I used to like. I knew no one there. I also made very little money from the jobs that I worked while there. My new husband liked his drink and being drunken. I found that out after the marriage. He would "preach" for several hours about anything from color to politics; you name it, when he had several large beers on an empty stomach. I would sit alone at night after he would fall asleep from his several drinks, it was a lonely life. I did not like the affects of the liquor especially, which resulted in two beatings. During the second one he declared he would kill me. After 2 1/2 hours of it I prayed that God would make him sleepy so I could drive back home to Forest City. He did get sleepy and told me that I had better leave while I had the chance. That happened December 22, 2003 so I spent my very first Christmas married to him in my empty house by myself. I had moved all of my furniture into storage except basics that you might use in camping. We moved back to Forest City in Feb. 2004 after his construction job laid off. He continued his drinking. He got a job and would be gone some nights when I was off and I loved being by myself. Not feeling safe when he drank I did not like living on "eggshells" not knowing what I would come home to or walk into late at night. It was nerve racking. I did love him when he was sober but that was not all of the time. We had great times together going to yard sales and auctions. We actually hung out together on weekends when we were going through our seperation. He would not drink when I wa...Expand for more