Mary Ball:
CLASS OF 1974
Helix High SchoolClass of 1974
La mesa, CA
Mary's Story
When I graduated from Helix in January or 74 I started with the Department of Defense and worked there for 30 years. I had a great career and got a chance to travel all over the U.S. with the Office on National Drug Control with the Clinton White House. I was a scientist in the telecommunications field and assisted first responders (Fire, Police, DEA, FBI, Secret Service), etc. with radio interoperability. I retired in 2004 at the age of 48, I sold my house in San Diego and moved to Apache Junction, AZ to a gated senior community. Last year we bought a lot to put a summer home at a another senior gated community in the mountains of Show Low, AZ, we traded in our 30 ft. R.V. and bought a small home whi...Expand for more
ch we plan on building onto next year. Beautiful country up here and much cooler then the Arizona Valley. We are at 6400 elevation in a the Sitgreaves Forest. I have one son, Joshua who is going to be 30 years old this year, he is the outcome of my first marriage to Bruce Wallace which lasted about 10 years. I remarried in 1992 to a man (Larry Ball) with a daughter, Erika and we had interesting times trying to do the blended children senario, we had to spoiled only children which was quite challenging. We all get along fairly well now sine Erika is now going to be 25 years old. We also had the challenges that most second marriages do with both ex's, oh well we made it through it. Keep in touch, Mary
Register for Free to view all details!
Yearbooks
Reunions
Register for Free to view all events!
Photos
Register for Free to view all photos!