Kay McNamara:  

After almost 10 years, I thought I would update my profile. Life has, for the most part, been good to me. My husband Randy retired from Delta in 2020, Although we still have travel benefits through Delta and can fly to anywhere in the world, the only place we really ever go is to MN for family events. I have gotten into house/dog sitting which keeps me busy. It started with one person who needed a house/dog sitter, and just by word of mouth I have become "in demand." I love animals, so it is a perfect retirement job for me. I have wonderful clients who have wonderful dogs. But I do miss my two cats when I am away from home for extended periods. I lost both of my parents within four months of each other (Nov 2018 and Mar 2019), lost my sister Pat (Brady Class of '72) in Aug 2020, and the middle of my five brothers (Mark) less than a week ago (Jan 15, 2022). I now have one sister and four brothers where I had two sisters and five brothers, but the remainder of us are closer than ever. Randy and I bought a little cabin in the Village of Mendota a few years ago and frequently travel back and forth from Phoenix, but we don't have to stay with relatives anymore when we do. We recently attended the Class of '71 Reunion at Mendakota Country Club (Sept '21), and it was great to see and catch up on the lives of so many old friends, but there were many who did not attend that I would love to have seen. It is devastating to lose friends and family, which we all know is part of life, but it was shocking to learn that approximately 30 of our classmates have passed, many of which I would never expect to have died so young, A small group of us discussed how much the world has drastically changed since our carefree high school days. We agreed that we are so blessed to have known simpler times growing up surrounded by fields, woods, creeks, ponds and lakes where we could endlessly entertain o...Expand for more