Marianne Sparks:  

CLASS OF 1961
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Grand rapids, MI

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Here iI am folks in my new town , Tucson arizona, but i have been here over 50 years so how new could it be? And how new could I be at eighty years old? My goodness , how could this have happened to a nice girl from G. R. …? Yet I looked at my profile pic and thought…but it did happen, and face it, you are really old-even as I would like to tell you that isn’t me, but it is. So I thought I should write a quick note so as not to worry you and tell you what a wonderful life I have had with all these years. But although I would like to tell you of the significance of CC and even more importantly St. James School I truthfully would rather thank God for my family and the Polish background I was lucky enough to grow up in where hard work was always tempered with good humor just as integrity was always to walk with kindness , duty and honor. my parents gave to me. My family has steered me through life and so fortunately for my children, their gandmother lived with us for many years after my dd passed so early ...Expand for more
in life leaving a void…… my mother stepped right in to fill. I thank God for it all and my children, my two daughters , Toni and Jamie are the epitome of what I have held dear. My mom and dad both told the same storysaid , “Whatever we did for you, you owe even more to your children, because that is what love does.”” Well dad, I did it because i told them your stories over and over and they got fixed just right. So I am 80 years old today and just like all of you, i am so proud of my family and where I came from.. .even then I am still chase my dreams and all those ponies and horses from the days of the ten cent matinees at the Our Theater on Leonard Street with Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy right here on old River road in my 50 yrs new hometown in this crazy desert place I learned to truly Iove. And when i wake up in the morning I hear all those old boys and girls whinny and call my name tight along with all our old horsie girls and boys who lived with us for such a long time, And I am home again.
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