Linda L. Patterson:  

Life Greetings, Everyone!! Please leave your name if you read this, I would love to know who is visiting my profile. June, 2016: This is the year that has changed my life and how I view life forever. Jan 4th I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy on the 18th. My major treatments are done, but I am still doing PT which will continue through the middle of August. Then this week I started having some issues with my heart that are probably due in part to the Radiation Therapy for my cancer. Another hurdle to get over. I will be wearing a heart monitor for the next month and then we will see what more treatments I am going to need. I just don't want any of this to interfere with me attending the McCook Reunion in September if my kids will let me drive up by myself after all this crazy stuff that is going on with my health this year. In spite of it all, I am feeling good, still working and planning to head to McCook in September. UPDATE (Feb, 2015): I'm still working and loving my job.....the 6 grandkids who live with me are growing--ages 11 - 19.....one is in college in Phoenix and we now have a licensed driver with her brother close behind with his Permit...... Insurance is going up, up, up!!! Yikes!!!! The twins are only 11, so it will be a few years before they are driving. All six kids are awesome and I love having them and their parents living with me. There is always something going on around here!!! The LAHS Alumni Reunion Committee is working hard on the next Reunion to be held July 24, 25 this year. Hope we see lots of "old friends" there. I am also working on a Class of '61 Reunion that will be held the two days prior to the BIG Reunion.....July 22 & 23. We had a great time at the 50th Reunion in 2011 and we all voted to have our Reunion just before the BIG Reunion so people can cover both with one trip to New Mexico. Hope we see more of our '61 Classmates here this year. UPDATE (April, 2014): Well, I now have 7 great-grandchildren.....the youngest, Cara, is not a year and a half old. I got to see 11 of my grandchildren and 5 of my great-grandchildren between Thanksgiving and Christmas last year. What a tremendous blessing that was!!! Also between Thanksgiving and Christmas I flew with my daughter and her two older children out to Norfolk, Virginia, for the my youngest son's Change of Command Ceremony. He took Command of the USS Maryland SSBN 738. For those who are not aware, that is a Trident submarine.....the largest in the Navy Fleet. He just told me last week there are only 12 of them in the Fleet. That was so exciting!! He has worked really hard his entire career to reach this goal he set for himself when he enlisted in the Navy right out of high school back in 1989. You might say I am an very proud mom. I am still working and still loving my job....I have been promoted to the position of Facility Security Officer for our company. I had to got through extensive training and obtain a TS Clearance to qualify for this position. Who would have thought that I would be doing something like at the age of 70?! I think it is great, but sometimes it boggles my mind!! My daughter and her family are still living with me and that is just plain awesome!! I pick up the younger kids from school when I get off work and when she gets home from work, she makes dinner for all of us. I so enjoy having all these children in my life daily.....can't imagine what it would be without them. I know I would be very sad and lonely.......they keep me young and very involved in life!! Couldn't ask for anything better!!! UPDATE: It's been more than a year again...I really need to check this out more often...My son, Kenny just became a grandpa for the second time....That makes 5 great-grandkids now...amazing. I always thought you had to be REEEAALY old for great-grandkids. NEXT UPDATE(July, 2012): Last October my granddaughter in California gave me great-grandchild #6(boy) and in October this year Kenny's daughter in Florida will make it #7 with a little girl. On May 23 I received an email from Ancestry.com from my husband's daughter looking for her father and siblings......so now I have 5 kids and 16 grandkids. My family just keeps growing......I wish my husband was still alive to enjoy all these kiddos....he never got to me...Expand for more