Barbara Johnson:  

I moved to Barberton in 1960 when I was about 6 weeks old. Myself, parents and older siblings moved from Doylestown, Ohio. I went to Lincoln Elementary,(I cried when they tore down Lincoln because, I had to go to Memorial school for the last year of elementary , plus I only lived 3 blocks from Lincoln that was r playground even when school was out for the summer), Memorial, U. L. Light Jr. High and Barberton High School. I lived in Barberton until October of 1980. Then moved to Arkansas with my husband Jim Johnson, (Class of 1977 Barberton High School), and two sons. I worked full time in a factory for 24 + years, ( this's the same factory that made all of our desk and chairs that we sat in all through school). I went to school and became a CNA while still working full time at my factory job. After that time I quit my factory job and started working in a Nursing Home full time and was going to college full time. I had tarsul tunnel in both of my feet, I was told it was from standing on concrete for all those years at my factory job. The doctor was going to operate on one foot and when it healed he was going to do the other foot. He did my LT. foot and he damaged the nerves in my foot that lead to the main nerve in your entire body so, now I can only stand on my foot for a very short period of time. Which in turn damaged my back as well. What I have is know as RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy). I ha...Expand for more