Vivian Thurmond:  

Directly out of high school in 1968, I moved with my family to Kansas City, Missouri because my father retired from the Army and had obtained a job at Bendix Corporation. Instead of following my dreams of becoming a doctor, I worked right out of high school at the same place my dad worked until January of 1969 when I married my first husband. We moved to Brookhaven, Pennsylvania and had two children. This is the area he was born and raised and his job was here. We divorced in 1973 and I remarried in June of 1979 to a wonderful man who adopted my two children as his. We moved to Morton, Pennsylvania where we built a home and our lives and built our vacation home in the Poconos where we eventually retired in 2004. Our two kids went on to college, married, and had children of their own. We now have four grand children. We have three grand daughters and one grand son. Two grand daughters (from our daughter) are ages 13 and 14 and the other two grand children, (our grand son) is 3 and our third grand daughter is a year and a half. Our son lives in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania and our daughter lives in Middletown, Delaware. Currently, my husband and I just enjoy living our lives with our family, babysitting (a lot of driving back and forth), traveling, we've almost seen all of the states in the United States, and been to Hawaii three times, the Caribbean many times, Mexico many times. We are involved with our development and functions to keep a development running smo...Expand for more