Gayle Ziegler:  

CLASS OF 1979
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Joliet, IL
Aurora UniversityClass of 1983
Aurora, IL
Joliet, IL
Joliet, IL
Joliet, IL

Gayle's Story

After high school I went to college and got a Bachelor's degree in Biology, with a Chemistry minor. I lived in Morris, Illinois while working at Akzo Chemie America as a Lab Technician. Moved to California in 1988 because I had a job offer. Lived in Fremont, Hughson, and now in Modesto, California. I am married and have a daughter who is 22 now. Kelly was a passenger in a car accident on December 6, 2008 and spent months in a semi-coma, spent another month in a rehab hospital where she had to learn to speak, eat, and walk again. She is a beautiful blonde. Her injury is a TBI, traumatic brain injury. Her boyfriend was driving drunk and reckless at over 100 mph and ran off the road, flipped the car end over end three times, killing one passenger, and hurting my daughter so bad she may never be the same. My husband is a volunteer fireman, who responded to the crash that night, not knowing that his stepdaughter was in the car. First on the scene were both a Sheriff's officer and a Ca Highway patrolman. Both said Kelly was dead in the car. The fire dept told the cops to get out of the way and let them do their job. Two firemen crawled in the car and ...Expand for more
were able to find an airway for Kelly, while my husband used the jaws to cut the car apart to get to her. She is proof that GOD does miracles. I spent months off work at her side for her recovery. Her boyfriend received 7 years in prison, 6 years for the death of the passenger and 1 year for what he did to Kelly. She left California after being convinced that life would be so much better in Elwood, Illinois with her dad (Tim King) and I have not seen her since she left May 15, 2009. She has not been the same since the accident. Someday, she'll know what it has been like for me to miss her so bad every day and have no contact with her. PLEASE Don't drink and drive. The effects of an accident will screw up so many lifes beside your own. You can never forget the memories of such a traumatic event and the pain it causes. I have a two miniature huskies named Blaze and Miya. They are what keep me sane. I work for the City of Modesto as an Environmental Compliance Inspector since January of 2008. Before that I worked there as a Laboratory Analyst testing water samples. I have been there for over 20 years and plan on staying there until I can ever retire.
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