Kathryn Pelky:  

Life I've been fortunate to have a good sense of humor in this life. I don't know how people get along without one. My husband Paul and I married at 19, when he was still an undergrad at Albany State. I went to Albany State nights and worked days as a secretary. My mom always said, you have to have something to fall back on. In high school I had reluctantly taken shorthand and typing and those humble skills have worked for me in many of the jobs I've held. Who knew that with the advent of computers typing would be so important? Anyway, we lived in Albany throughout most of the 70's while he went to college and then Albany Law. I got a great job with the SUNY Construction Fund and met some of the most interesting people I've ever met in my whole life. I was sad in 1977 to have to move to Oswego, NY, where he took his first (and only) legal position, with the firm of Leonard Amdursky. Eventually that firm became Amdursky, Pelky, Fennell & Wallen and I would become its office manager, but that was in the 90's after having our 4 children: Lisa, Philip, Laura and Paul Jr. We bought the starter house in a housing development and had our first 2 kids, and when I became pregnant for Laura bought a 70 acre farm in the Town of Oswego overlooking Lake Ontario. The house is circa 1865 and was built in stages, with the Italianate brick portion first, then the 1900's addition, then the 1920's kitchen addition. Now it has 5 bedroom...Expand for more