Toni Glessner:  

Life After high school, I left the Skagit Valley and moved to Seattle with my older sister Heidi. We lived with my estranged mother and her husband for a little while until we got on our feet. We both got jobs at Auto Warehousing in Seattle driving Chevy Luv Trucks off the docks. We then moved to Kent, Wa. My sister and I lived there for a while and Diane Lorenzen moved in with us for a while. We all joined the carnival in 1978 and went on the road. I traveled with the carnival for a couple of years and then ended up in Portland for a few years. After Portland I ended up in Tacoma, Washington for several years. That is where I met my husband Jerry Glessner. We met on March 20, 1981 on the corner of 56th and McKinley at Country Boys IGA. It was almost 2:00am when he came into the store with a friend who was having a party. I was at the store because I had previously worked there and had insomnia so I was visiting with a friend who was a cashier there at the time. When my husband Jerry and his friend Bob came through the line, Jerry's friend Bob invited me to his party. After I went to the party with them, Bob asked Jerry to get me out of the party because his girlfriend was jealous of me. Well, I won't...Expand for more