Gay Raney:  

CLASS OF 1973
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Charleston, WV
Charleston, WV
Tucson, AZ
Charleston, WV
Fernbank SchoolClass of 1970
Charleston, WV

Gay's Story

I attended Fernbank school. 1st thru 4th grade Teachers..Mrs Rexroad, Mrs Wood, Mrs Chamberlain, Mrs A???.. lived on Stone Road. favorite things we did was the 'rock cliff" and swinging on the grapevines..eating honeysuckle and riding the postal truck with "Lee" the post man , following the mosquito truck...can you believe this? had a dog named Gypsy friends Linda Whisner, Debbie Miller, Judy Reed, KathyEllison (scary Friday night movies at her house) first boyfriend Bobby Wright... :) I remember President Kennedy was killed Halloween with pillow sacks full of candy and dad's 58 Chevy Preparing the bomb shelter during the Cuban missile event Moved to Sugar Creek area... lived behind the school, the Sugar Creek bridge where all the "bad boys" hung out....I had to walk fast across that bridge..no loitering. Those boys sure were cute.. :) the swings and merry-go- around was my favorite my uncle Martin had the barber shop on that street and my grandmother and great grandmother lived close by teachers" Mrs Blackshire (she hit me with ruler on my hand), Maddy was janitor, Mrs Wood, she hired me to clean her house I helped in the kitchen, so my brother and I could get lunch, my dad was sick and hospit...Expand for more
alized for a long time, so I would cook dinner at night when mom was working Bestest friend Nancy Smith Boyfriend: Clinton Boggess, my first kiss John Hall, John Dunlap, Roger Marion and Lee Woodrow Wilson.. dances at North Charleston community hall...a few times Nancy and I walked home, thru Little Page area boyfriend Buddy (Harold) Breedan, would love to know what happened to him?? Flowing Wells Moved to Arizona when I was 12, very difficult to leave my friends, remember Wetmore pool, A mountain, Mt lemon, sabino Canyon friends Joe Kelly, Tony Lott, Gee Gee Washburn Married next door neighbor Don Asbury early age>> actually only went 21 days of 9th grade had baby boy Became a widow from motorcycle accident 1972 Moved to California got married 1973, had a child, took GED, went to Chaffey college for AS in Nursing, training at Fontana Kaiser, rode the public bus with small child, worked co-op center for child care then BSN at USF...did public health in San Francisco, travel every week from Sacramento Sonoma State first teleconference MSN program Worked at Kaiser Sacramento past 25 years..retired Now at Veterans' Administration Sacramento.. Living life full...working on my "bucket list"
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