Barbara Hurley:  

Two days after graduating, I moved to Clovis to live with my Mother and go to school at Fresno City College. Thru friends met there, I met my husband Mike, just out of the Coast Guard. He and I moved to Maryland, which is where he was from, and got married in Dec. 72. We lived there for 10 yrs. (except for 5 mos. we moved back to Fresno, but he had a motorcycle accident and we moved back to Maryland) He worked for General Electric and I worked at a Title Co, and various mortgage co., then quit to stay home and raise our 2 beautiful daughters in 77 and 80. Work was slow at GE in early 80's, so we decided to moved back to Calif., to Visalia where my sister lived, and we started our own appliance repair business in 82. We are still doing that and are blessed with constant work. Our oldest daughter, Jessica, went to San Diego State and still lives down there working in insurance. Our youngest, Rebecca, went to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and is teaching third grade in Tulare. She and her husband, Jordan, of 5 years live 2 miles from us and have our only grandchild, Abby, the smartest kid on earth! They are expecting another child Aug. 2010. Jordan is the band director at one of the 4 high schools here in Visalia. My husband owns 8 motorcycles, four of which are Harleys. (He's a nut, I know) We have a motorhome and love to camp with friends. We've been to Sturgis, SD, Colorado, and Oregon. Being self-employed, it's hard to take more than 2 weeks off at a time, but hope to travel further in retirement, which Mike says won't happen till he's 70! (He's 61 now). We did manage to go to Tahiti on a cruise last year, an amazing trip! My parents are still hanging there in Santa Rosa, and still live on Link Lane where I grew up. We took them to Oregon in June (09) to visit an Aunt. What a trip! My brother, Ron, is still hanging around SR,living here and there. His son Jake just had a little boy, so Ron is a grandpa now too. So we are s...Expand for more