Bonnie Wallace:  

I am a New Albany Indy transplant who came to SC in 1970. Schools I attended schools in Sumter and the surrounding counties to include, Shaw Heights Elem. Lamara Elem, Ashwood Central, and Sumter High School. I later attended midlands technical college (Property Management), Midlands Technical College (Paralegal). I moved to Algonac Michigan for a brief period of time before landing in and living in Columbia for the next twenty years. I married, Vincent E. Orta in 1981 and we had only one child, a son. Michael V. Orta born in 1988 at Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia. After 20 years of marriage and a LOT of trying to save our dying marriage during those last couple of years - we divorced in 2000. In 1999, I found myself in the work force at the corporate offices of Pipeline Supply Co. Inc. in Columbia, SC. Sadly my employment ended in 2007 after a workplace accident that could not be fixed. Medically retired in 2007! That was a hard pill to swallow! I did however meet my soul mate at Pipeline and we married May 6, 2006. The ceremony was breath taking. Everything that I wanted it to be and more. Ironically, my accident injury happened the same month of our marrying, but it did not push me away - he instead braced his life as a husband, care giver, stepfather, and Poppy to our Grandchildren. Lew accepted Michael the first time they met and a r...Expand for more