Judith Carole Croom:  

My Life I live in sunny, St. Petersburg, Florida. I married my junior high school sweetheart, Manley (Phil) Phillip Croom, Jr. We met at church. He took me to the ninth grade prom, when we were students at Alexander Graham Jr. High. We broke up after two months and didn't see each other for twelve years. In the meantime, I transferred to Pine Forest High School. I finished school and married my high school sweetheart, but it was doomed from the word go. We separated when my son was 7 months old and later divorced. Thank God! Phil and I met when I was working at a motorcycle shop in 1972 and we were married twenty one days later. It was the best decision I ever made. We had been married for thirty-nine years and never had an argument. We had a very special relationship. We have four children and eight grandchildren,(five boys and three girls). We liked to travel when we ciould, we also liked to camp. We went fishing whenever we could. We tried to get to Fayetteville at least once a year I am sad to say that I lost my soulmate on September 21, 2011. I miss him terribly. School I started my scholastic career at Ramsey Street School in 1952. in Fayetteville, North Carolina. I attended the third grade at Hildebran Elem School in Hickory, North Carolina. In 1954, my father was transferred to Munich, Germany, where I attended the American School from the fourth to the sixth grades. We were shipped back to the United States and I finished my year in the sixth grade, again at Hildebran Elem School in Hickory, North Carolina. We headed to New Jersey, where my father was stationed and I attended the seventh and eighth grades in Long Branch, New Jersey. We were transferred to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where I finished the eighth and ninth grades at Alexander Graham Junior High School. I attended the tenth grade a...Expand for more