Shelly Iles:  

After Cookson Hills I moved to Missouri. I lived there about 2 years. I went to college in Moberly, a town that my daughter and I visited a few summers ago, and found to be a thriving, growing town. When I left Moberly I lived in Eldon, Mo. a while. Eldon is at the top of the Lake of the Ozarks, which is a beautiful place. I then moved to Wickam Market. A little town 20 miles from Ipswich in England. A storybook place. From there on to Oklahoma City. After that I lived in California for 24 years, until 1993. About that time California became unlivable. I guess I always thought of Stockton as home there but I lived all over the place. My X worked building Highway 5 and 10 and the California Aquaduct. During that time I got to live in Fresno, Bakersfield, Blythe, Visalia, Coalinga, Frazier Park/Lebec, and some other places that I can't think of right now. I did spend a lot of time in Santa Cruz. I actually happened to be there during the Oct.17,1989 earthquake. We were hiking on the Loma Prieta Trail which is where the earthquake happened on Oct 10, 1989. Quite an experience! I got to camp many times in Yosemite, go to Disneyland a couple of times (also Universal Studios) and spent a lot of time in San Francisco. I also spent time in the most beautiful part of CA (and un-peopled part). The north west coast clear up to Brookings, OR. I got to go up to Seattle on a train and go to Expo 86' in Vancouver, BC. Oh and my favorite park in CA is the Big Trees at Arnold. Sequoyah is cool too. At some point CA became a large state of Mexico and I felt it was time to leave. We then moved to West Valley City which is the 2nd largest city in Utah though so many people have never heard of it, because it's a suburb of Salt Lake. It's a great place in some ways but it is a large city and the crime is getting worse. There were good things there though. It was sooo cool being there in 2002 for the Olympics. And I have been LDS (A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ) for 44 years. Some people call us Mormons because we have The Book of Mormon, as well as the Bible. Anyway that's a cool place to be if you're a member. In 2007, we moved down to St. George, UT. It's 112 miles northeast of Las Vegas. We loved it there. No snow, very little anyway. Hot but not as hot as Las Vegas and no humidity! And everyplace is so air conditioned that you freeze half the time. We went to this town of 140 thousand for our youngest daughter to go to Tuacahn Performing Arts School. Plus we missed our granddaughter who already lived there. Now we have a grandson and another granddaughter there. So it was a good place to be. Our daughter ended up getting full scholarship to Southern Utah University. She is a 4.0 student who homeschooled through the 8th grade. I have 4 living kids, and one that died with SIDS, which was my first. He died in England and that is why we came back to the states. Another son died in 2017 at the age of 36 so I changed that to 4 living kids, I love the computer and have been online since about 1995. Tari and I have already kept in touch all of these years. I just wish that we hadn't moved across the country from each other. It would be nice to know what happened to Rene' Stallard, and Cletus & Patricia Carter. Also I still miss Betty and Melinda Smith. from Cookson Hills. I have talked to Betty and Dana and also Ramona. I also talked to Mom Dunn, who has since died. I saw Hallums when they came to Stockton about 20 years ago. There are lots of people I would like to hear about, like Melvin, the sassaf...Expand for more