Lynette Haerer:
CLASS OF 1972

Andrew Jackson High SchoolClass of 1972
Chalmette, LA
Southeastern Louisiana UniversityClass of 1976
Hammond, LA
Chalmette Middle SchoolClass of 1968
Chalmette, LA
C. F. Rowley Elementary SchoolClass of 1966
Chalmette, LA
Lynette's Story
Life
After high school, I was married that December 11. My first daughter was born November 24, 1973. My second daughter was born May 23, 1977. My ex-husband did a tour of Germany in the U.S. Army and that was an amazing 4.5 years in my life. I had the opportunity to see things that I had always dreamed of seeing one day. Touring the many castles and wineries and monasteries was phenomenal. I have so many photos from Germany to remember those times. I was divorced in 2005 after 32 years of marriage. I am a grandmother of three beautiful children. My oldest granddaughter is Mollie and she is 12. Her brother Alex Nathaniel Edward just turned 9. My third grandchild was born to my youngest daughter March 22, 2007. I have not seen her yet as they live in Burlington, Iowa and I have moved from that area to Picayune, Mississippi. I came here to care for my ailing dad who was a widower of one year when I got here. He succumbed to his grief and his bad health finished the process and he passed away in August, 2006. So, now it is just my brother and I remaining. I have had the opportunity to begin life again and am dating. I am having a world of fun and the guy is terrific. He and I knew each other in high school and he even attended two of the parties I held. He was in and out of my life back then and now he is back in my life. Who knows for sure what the future holds!???!!!! All I know is that there is love after a divorce and I have managed to find it.
Workplace
My work history actually began when my oldest daughter was about 8 months of age and I briefly went to work for the Godchaux's on Canal Street in the credit department. That didn't last long as I was still so naive and young and didn't quite know how to handle being a mom and working. So I quit. The next time I went to work was in Nurnberg, Germany while my oldest was ...Expand for more
in Kindergarten and the youngest was only 2. I worked in a German Department Store warehouse and worked 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. to allow my husband at the time to be able to work and the children were only in daycare a couple of hours a day and then daddy had them at home. The next time I worked was in Oklahoma and I went into self-employment cleaning houses and had quite a list of customers, school teachers, officers wives, businesses and then my doctor made me quit because of my back. So I then found work as a secretary at a hospital in the housekeeping department. From there I went to daycare and then eventually became an Administrative/Executive Secretary/Full Charge bookkeeper for a local nursing home corporation in Lawton, Oklahoma.
While in Oklahoma my ex-husband decided God had called him to be a pastor in the LCMS Lutheran Church and we were off to Ft. Wayne, Indiana. I became a legal secretary for Catholic Charities of Ft. Wayne/South Bend Diocese and was in the pregnancy and adoption services department. That was my most favorite job of all. I am currently working for a personal injury, workers comp, and Social Security disability attorney in Picayune, Mississippi.
I am also getting the house ready to list for sale so that my brother can help build my financial security. That way, I won't need anyone to depend upon and I will be able to live quite well. He has done this for years and is quite good at it. It just makes me nervous because of how things are run. I have already talked to the real estate agent about a place to move in to someplace else here in Picayune as I enjoy my job and look forward to staying here for quite some time to come.
My love life has truly taken off again. The guy I am seeing has begun to talk about marriage, so maybe sometime in 2008, I will take the plunge again "for better or worse".
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