Shari Benton-thomas:
CLASS OF 1965
West High SchoolClass of 1965
Torrance, CA
Shari's Story
Life
Hi all. I am as zanny as ever and very happy.
I lived most of my post college life in Ohio and Connecticut. I began working in Beauty Industry Trade performances etc. and over the years eventually became COO of a company that was owned by Conair Corp. At the end of my career I moved to work as COO of Redken in California. It was a wonderful career,.. Stressful at times but fun.
I had two terrific boys. Christian who is a pilot (Just left Contnental to fly Corporate.) Christian is married and has 3 spectacular kids (if I do say so myself:+)) My second son, Aaron is perpetually engaged to a lovely girl. They are both quite successful fine artists. Aaron is a professor at the Savannah college of Art and Design.
In the late 80's I became ill and after fighting it for too long I finally retired from my position and set out to find out what was wrong. I bounced from diagnosis to diagnosis...the current one sadly is MS, but I do pretty well. Many symptoms trouble me but I don't need wheel chairs etc. I am very lucky in that regard.
After that I got Aaron through to college and then went back to California where I got to spend the last few years of my parent's lives with them. What a ble...Expand for more
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I was divorced in the 80's around the onset of my illness. I spent lots of years being "introduced" to nice men....a couple even liked me :+), but I was just about to believe that the man of my dreams was not a reality. Dani Thomas, my close friend from high school and I had maintained a wonderful friendship throughout the years...after a period of almost daily calls and emails as we sometimes did under bad circumstances for one or both of us...we started to meet and before long we realized that the friendship was much more. We were married July 15,2006. Imagine...Shari Benton and Dani Thomas...married...the dynamic duo and then some. The life is one big giggle.
We live in Iowa where "Dr. Thomas" has been a Polical Science professor for 30 years. Moving to Iowa from Northern California where I had moved to be closer to my kids was quite an adjustment, but, home is where the heart is and mine is here with Dani and all the blizzards in the world couldn't change that
Between us now we have 5 children,,,and I managed to get three girls out of the deal. Jordan, 16, lives with us and is a kick....she reminds me of us at that age.
Love to hear from you, so would Dani,
Shari Benton-Thomas
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