Kathleen Gonzalez:  

After leaving high school I have been many places and accomplished many feats. I was blessed with three daughters and adopted my son. I now have ten grandchildren and one great granddaughter. I moved to Missouri and lived in Buffalo, Lathrop, and Liberty Missouri over the course of ten years. Many things to learn and do. I started playing fast-pitch softball and found that I truly loved this sport. I played softball for over thirty years. When I came back to California I found they had no fast pitch teams and switched over to slow-pitch softball. I played for many teams and enjoyed my weekends playing in tournaments. I also ran the league for Northrop Corporation at one point. Life has not all been a bed of roses though. In 1990 my baby daughter who was only 15 years old was murdered in Wilmington. There are many losses in this world but the hardest of all is when you lose a dearly loved daughter. She stood 5'10" and had a promising career in modeling and songwriting which she never got to see come to fruition. She was happy and full of life and it was cut short by some moron who wanted a piece of her and she would not submit so he proceeded to shoot her through the heart. It is still hard to talk about but it helps sometimes to put things down into words. Backing up a couple of months I remember joining a very rewarding service organization by the name of Civitan International. My mom and dad were also members. My dad served as Governor for the state of California for Civitan International in 1962. My mom served as Governor for the same organizati...Expand for more