Glady Coe Christenson:
CLASS OF 1955
Sumner High SchoolClass of 1955
Sumner, WA
Central Washington UniversityClass of 1959
Ellensburg, WA
Puyallup Junior High SchoolClass of 1955
Puyallup, WA
Stewart Elementary SchoolClass of 1949
Puyallup, WA
North Puyallup Elementary SchoolClass of 1949
Puyallup, WA
Glady's Story
After high school graduation,I attended college for one year, met the person I thought I could be happy with for the rest of my life, married him and left school to raise a family. My parents were disappointed, but marriage and a family seemed more important to me than school when I was 18. We had three children, but after 10 years I realized our moral values were no longer a match. Stuck it out 13 more years until the children were a bit older and finally filed for divorce. Tough times - I thought I had married for life. In 1980 I married Jack, my hero and truly the love of my life. We just celebrated 30 years of wedded bliss. I teasingly tell him I have given him the 30 best years of his life -- and bless him, he doesn't disagree (out loud, any way -- he is a very wise man).
I started my working career as a secretary at Boeing's Renton plant, watch...Expand for more
ed from the tarmac as they rolled out the brand new 707. Left Boeing pregnant with my first child, and was a stay-at-home mom until the third and last was in school. Worked for 30 more years, first as an executive secretary and then as assistant to the president. A former college asked me to be the risk department for a suspended scaffolding manufacturer in Tukwila, WA (yes, I was indeed the department - it was a department of one, and I was it). Very interesting - spent the last 5 years of my carrier there.
Jack and I retired in 2004 and moved ourselves and 3 greyhounds to the home we had purchased in 2000 on the Big Island of Hawaii. In 2005 we purchased a 1/2-acre lot with an ocean view from my cousin Pat, and now enjoy waking up each morning to enjoy a warm Hawaiian sunrise from the lanai on our new house. We are so very blessed, and life is good.
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