Harryette Miller-Burnette:  

Hello 2 all my fellow classmates; I came from Sikeston in 1968 to Cape Girardeau, Mo 2 have a surgery; ended up staying here and attending church with my aunt; while there a charming young man with the famous hollywood haircut caught my eye. Little did I know he would call later that Sunday evening in August and we would end up life partners in marriage. He had 2 go in the military in 1969; while in training in Ft. Leonardwood, Mo his parents & young brother & I would go every weekend to visit with him until he was privileged to come home for visits; from there he went to Ft. Benjamin Harrison, IN where he trained to be a postal dispatcher in Viet Nam. He was then sent over & in active duty in VietNam, active in the sense that a postal dispatcher delivered mail out in the field, not as a dispatcher at home sitting behind a desk. While there was grazed across the top of his head with a bullet; he carries the scar today as a reminder to never take life for granted; when he came home, was critically ill with a "bug" the dotors attending him could never quite come up with a name for it; however in March 1971 we were married. In May we found out I was pregnant and ended up sick most of the 9 months. My very precious and loving daddy went to be with Jesus in December before he had the privilege of meeting our little bundle of joy Larry Scott "Scottie" to us born February 18 1972. He was and is our only child; now 37. We lived in Cape until 1998 then moved to Fruit-land; stayed there until 2006 then moved back to Cape to be near our granddaughter Alexis Joy, now 12. I've had several jobs including selling Amway, Avon, babysitting, bookkeeping positions, travel reservation clerk for B.A.R.T., telephone secretary, nurse aide, assistant manager of a party/gift/balloon store, greeting card distributor; we had a craft booth at the Country Shade Craft mall for 6 years; learned a lot about crafting and have made some lovely things. It's so nice 2 know you have a talent you weren't aware of and it be success-ful enough to sell the product. While there I also made lots of homemade goodies & believe me at holiday time I worked around the clock for 2 days & nights many times to have enough to serve all who desired them plus having enough to go over and do sample days. Made homemade jams as well and at one time had either 14 or 15 flavors. They were selling as quick as I could make them as well. The trouble with all of it, you have to sell it, in this area, at a very modest price or folks won't buy, so you never get anything for the long hours of labor. I started doing freelance writing for the Southeast Missourian monthly pub-lication TBY, The Best Years in 2001 and submitted articles until fall of 2006 when they changed their format. Larry's family owned a custom meat market when I met him; it was success-ful until 1988 July when the slumping economy then forced them-us, to close their-our doors. I had worked there many long hours as well; I'm sure I can tell you as much as most butchers or meat cutters about cuts of meat, what are the best flavored, what the exact cuts are, what part of the animal it comes from, etc. I've been a good mother, wife, Ma-Ma, church participant and friend to many I've come in contact with through the years. My outgoing personality as I'm sure many from school will remember as one of my attri...Expand for more