Deborah Windisch:  

Life A lot of you searching my profile are from Buena Park High School and Compton Sr. High. Just a note: I didn't attend either school; my older cousins (the Lees) attended Compton Sr. High, and my uncle was the principal, while many of my McComber Jr. High friends went on to Buena Park HS while I went to Sunny Hills in Fullerton, CA (graduated from Los Alamitos HS). I am listed as a "friend" of Compton SH and BPHS - sorry to confuse you! Although So. Calif. was my home for 18 years, the Central Coast toward No. Calif. is my residence of choice. I'm passionate for thick forests, winding roads, azure blue skies following coastal fog in the mornings, mild weather, the ocean, & the Bay Area's liberal politics. I grew up in Lakewood and Buena Park. My brother, Fred, is married to a Swiss woman, Maria, who has three grown daughters. Fred & Maria moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 2005. My half sister from my mother's first marriage is Suzanne Roady Ross. She & husband Jack have two children, JT Ross, who attended OSCHA & is soon to be a famous stage/screen actor, and Annaleise, who just graduated from my alma mater, Los Alamitos HS. She is a hairdreser, and will be married in August of 2006. My family is in So. Calif., Washington State & Kansas. Four of us live here in Santa Cruz County. My paternal grandmother, Grace Hand Windisch, a Kansan who was a widow for 48 years, was a multi-talented woman who built her own china cabinets, made a perfect pie crust & sewed my dresses on a Singer treadle sewing machine. She worked at May Co. in Los Altos for several years, & loved Manning's Cafeteria in Long Beach. She lived in Belmont Shore on 59th Place between Alamitos Bay and the ocean until 1982. Grace's daughter, my aunt Faustina, married Keith Lee, principal/coach at Compton Sr.High and Roosevelt Jr. High. Faustina was the high school librarian. Linda and Nick Lee, their kids, graduated from Compton Sr.High in 1958 and 1962. Linda married her high school sweetheart, Jim Smith, who had a long career with Pennzoil. Nick married the lovely Julie Sprague. Their cousins, RJ (Riley Jr.) & Mardelle Lee attended Compton in the 50's and 60's as well. My maternal grandmother, Frieda Bergen, who emigrated from Russia as a child in the early 1900's & lived in New Jersey...Expand for more