Bonnie Dobson Andersen:
CLASS OF 1959
Lackawanna Elementary SchoolClass of 1959
Jacksonville, FL
Technical High SchoolClass of 1965
Jacksonville, FL
John Gorrie Junior High SchoolClass of 1962
Jacksonville, FL
Bonnie Dobson's Story
I attended Lackswanna Elementry school form 1st to 6th grade, 1953 to 1959.. John Gorrie from 7th to 9th grade, 1959 to 1962. I went to Jacksonville Technical High School from 1962 to 1965 when I graduated. I lived on Dignan Street all those years. I was an average student. I was engaged my senior year in high school and got married the July after graduation, we have been married ever since.When my husband was discharged from the Navy in 1966 we moved to his hometown outside Cleveland Ohio. We've lived in Ohio ever since. We have 3 terrific sons and 3 precious granddaughters.
We now live south of Cleveland, in the country on 30 acres, lots of woods and trails and a pond and a large creek snakes through the "bottom land". Still lot of land to mow. We have his and her riding mowers so that helps.
We are retired. I worked in sales and office manager as well. We owned our own company for many years, Andersen Electronics,Inc. We manufactured Hush-a-Coms, an intercom for small aircraft. We traveled to Oshkosh, WI to the Fly In there as well as Lakeland FL to their Sun n Fun Fly In. The business was out of our home, with my husband working at General Electric in Cleveland, Ohio full time. He was the brains with the manufacturing. I ran the business end. .
I bred Labs for years, I had 4, 2 chocolate, a yellow and the black Lab was my stud dog. They were beautiful English Labs, I got from a top breeder in Cranberry PA. She is the one who talked me into breeding as the first one she sold...Expand for more
me was show quality and she wanted a puppy. . I also bred Shetland Sheepdogs as well, but only for a short time. We had 6 dogs, the 4 labs and 2 Shelties.
We have been blessed with a good life. Our oldest son and his wife each have their own business. Ray, Jr is Outback Ray of Outback Ray's Amazing Animal Shows. He is on Facebook as well as his own website, OutbackRay.com. His wife is a Beach Body coach, her website is CraveTheBurn.com. They have 2 girls, Reagen, 11 and Skyler 6.. They live 45 minutes from us. in Bath, Ohio
Our middle son, Kevin is a college graduate, and lives in Statesville NC, works as a Financial Analyst near Charlotte NC. He has one daughter, Jordan 7.
Our youngest son Craig, has one more year of college, he too is majoring in Business Fiance. He will be 42 when he graduates. Craig lives in Cleveland and is attending Cleveland State University.
We have wintered in Southern Arizona for the past 6 years, not far from Nogales AZ. We love it there and have traveled all over Arizona. This coming winter will be our last year there though, we will winter in Florida and North Carolina. Our middle son Kevin, bought a beautiful home in North Carolina with a mother-in-law suite and he wants us to move in. That's not going to happen, but we will winter with him awhile and then head to Florida for a month or so.
I look forward to hearing from you and learning what you have been doing since you were in school.
Take care and God bless.
Bonnie Dobson Andersen
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