Angela Ciesla:  

A warm hello to anyone who has wondered where my life has taken me. First of all, that is me hugging a less than 24 hour born baby goat last year. I take the pictures, I'm usually never in them. This is hard for me, because for 32 years I had the most incredible family. A few of you knew Jim, but we didn't start dating until after we all graduated. He was a JFK graduate, and we met at Como Mall. We married on 9/11/1976. Which 25 years later was the day of the attack by Bin Laden on our country. Nice silver anniversary present. With the economy going south in Buffalo, it was only a matter of time before we would have to relocate. Jim was the production manager at Gioia Pasta, but they were sold to Borden who then decided to close the plant down. Soon after, he was offered a job at a new pasta plant being built in Kansas City by a different company. We decided to make the move. It has had it's good and bad points, and for those of you who are actually interested in them, drop me a note and I will expound. The main, horrible thing is that on our 30th anniversary, Jim was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. They were never able to determine it it was lung or kidney, (BTW, he never smoked) but never the less. He died six weeks...Expand for more