Kathy Castro:  

CLASS OF 1969
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Hoover High SchoolClass of 1969
Fresno, CA

Kathy's Story

That has been the question since the day I was born, who am I really, well God and my mother know for sure. I have played many parts in this life of mine that I find precious today, even though sometimes I'm not sure what day it is.. I have married more times then most, except Elizbeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney...but then it is not a contest. I have always loved making people laugh, well growing up I was the one who got laughed at for various reasons. I have learned not to take myself too seriously. I wasn't always so smart, I use to wear my feelings on my sleeve, so now I try and stick with sleevless blouse's. I love the ocean, and plants, and Kauai. I lived there for 3 years off and on. God is first in my life, and I'm not ashamed of that, it is my right, to choose and love God. He's been very patient with me over the years. There was a time when I didn't want to live, well you did ask who am I really, so the masks are off-breifly. I thought I was all bad, no good is what I once scratch on my upper thigh with a razor blade. I thought I was "a bad seed" that is not true that would be one of the many lies I believed for too long.. I have come a long ways I wish it was 20 years ago, but it is what it is. My life as been anything but boring... My friends who go far enough back with me, know I was a loner in school, the biggest event that brought attention to me was when I ran away to Haight-Ashbury when I was 16 in 1967.. that was a trip....in more then one way.... God wanted me to be here, and I guess one day I will tell my whole story, but I will let you know when, and even autograph a copy for you. When and if I do write it. While I can remember....If you want more added about my story, you will have figure out a way to contact me. I will fill in some of the many gaps, in this story that I had to leave out, for lack of time, and I can't tell you everything you wouldn't buy my book. I have 2 daughter and 6 granchildren and my grandchildren are beautiful and most of them are mixed, not mixed up like Grandma Kathy but mixed races, Afrro-American/Caucasian Thai& Lao/Cacasian and hispanic/caucasian. But their real race is the human race... I have had a nose ring that I got when I was about 55 and I have several tatoo's the last one I got I was about 55 or 56. the first one I was about 23. I love cats, my smartest cat & the one I had the longest, I brought home from Kauai, and she was 16 when I had to put her to sleep. Her name was Esther. That was not a good day. I have been in Fresno qite alot of the time, when I was 19 I went to Maine and back with a druck driver I met while being a waitress at well you guessed it a truck stop. I lived in Mesa, Ar where my oldest daughter was born as was her father then back to Fresno where my youngest daughter was born, hard to believe they are now in their early to mid thirty's. Time flies when you know someday you will be asked "Who are you Really"? My nic name is Kat go figure... I have gone by the name Angel, Kathy(my given name) susie,Linda, and in my altered condition a you might say I had a 'host' of other names.. Today I'm happy to be called Kat. I was blonde when most of you reading this knew me. I have had my hair every color incuding RED and I mean RED not orange not burnt something it was RED that was just a couple of years ago. One my friends still calls me a Hip...Expand for more
py, I don't about that, I have different values now. Healthier ones. I was a massase' cashier, health food store clerk, managed the garden shop in a large store in Kauai, I was also a bartender for a brief time in Kauai. I will tell you a secret, I'm still too self consios, so don't tell anyone I want to come across self assured in who I am. With out God, as I said I would not be sitting hear bearing my soul... If I'm going to work somewhere, I need to have more assertivenes, face my fears, and do my very best to be able to deal with the day-to-day. One of the sugestions was what was the wildest thing I did in school. I don't if I will share that, but in Junior High which was Tioga, there was a teacher named Micky McClung I think its been awhile, and some friends and I called and pretended were some girls interested in meeting him at Bobs Big Boy on Blackstone and Shaw. Then we went and watched him show up, and sat outside and giggled, as do girls when they they have gotten away with getting one over on a teacher... Well my fav way to relax, chill, take a time out, let it all go, would be at Kauai, in a shaded area down on the beach watching a very large sun set. Its quite beautiful and mezmerizing all at the same time. Yeah thats where I would if just given the chance. I would hope the friends I had would remember my heart for people, and my laughter at life, and my kindness towards others that were hurting, I still hate to see people in pain. My obsessions, I can obsess on almost anything, I love plants and gardening, when I lived in Kauai, it was a dream come true in so many ways, and certainly one of the ways was all of the beautiful, lush and very large plants and shrubbery, and flowers so frangerant, the smell as you step off the plane when you arrive in Hawaii, anywhere I would imagine, for sure Honolulu and Kauai. The sweetness is really almost beyond description. I can close my eyes, and lay down and drift to sleep, and some where during the nite, I will awaken and be there smelling the sweetness in the air, swimming and snorkeling in the clear warm water and playing peek a boo with the beatifully colored fish they have over there. So incredibale. Sorry I get carried away and just don't want to come back to the reality of being in Fresno again. Nothing against Fresno, I was born here. There is no place I have been in the Mainland that compares even closely to anywhere in Hawaii, and I have been to New York and back and to Maine and back.. There are many beautiful place here, but not capture my thought, and take me away like the memorys of when I lived in Kauai. My heart is still there, hopefully I will go back some day, I said I was never going to live here again, and I really wanted to die over there. Okay, I'll stop. Obsessions, cats, jewlery at times, husbands, ok the weren't obsessions, I guess after 6 marriges I was beginning to wonder. I love office things, pens oh my Gosh, I must have well not a million but way more then I need and yet not nearly enough I would think that would be a obsession. Paper clips of all colors florscent, silver, brass, of all shapes, who knew the made paper clips is so many shapes, they do..... post its.....little ones, big ones, square ones, ones to flag things. Ones that are stick part of the backs, ones that are sticky all over the back. I went kind of postal over Post-its....
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Grammy's girl
Im not really asleep..............
honest I didn't open your presents!
ok,  I ate all of it!   :))
what do you think Hawaii or Fresno???
can I go pleasssssssssssse??
I'm as innocent as I look!
3 generations
Lilly Pearl
Pretty as a picture
Flaming Red
ahhhhhhhh love
people at b-party May 08
people at my b-party   may-08
pics on wall of me, on b-day 08
people at party May 08
daughter surprized me with B-dat party
turning 57
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