Mavis Clark:  

In 1950 my parents moved to Rivers, MB coming from Windsor On, and I attended Rivers Elementary School until grade 8 in June of 1955. We then moved to Saskatoon, SK where I attended Bedford Road Collegiate until 1958. Unfortunately, I did not graduate from there but did continue my education later in life and got my grade 12 equivilencey. I had a lot of good memories of Saskatoon at BRCI where I was in choir with Mr Nickels, played Volleyball with Miss George as coach, was a cheerleader for the house of Roosevelt and went to many football games, (never did understand all the rules of that game). I then went to work for Eaton's in the accounting dept for 2 years and then proceeded to follow my father's footsteps into the Air Force. I was trained as a Medical Assistant and stayed in for the 3 years that I signed up for and thoroughly enjoyed my new career. But, as fate would have it, I met a handsome young man who stole my heart and we married before I got out of the Air Force. It was a great time when my Dad got stationed to Trenton where I was and my sister joined up and got moved to the same base in Trenton. The publicity dept of the Air Force then took pictures of the 3 of us on one base. and published it in all the papers where our homes were. I got married in 1961 and we had 2 children while in Trenton and then moved on to Manitoba, back to Rivers, CJATC. It seemed like I was in a circle going round and round. We lost our daughter there and buried her at age 20 months in Feb 1966. We then had a 3rd child, another son, in Brandon. My husband then got out of the service and we proceeded to Alberta for 2 years before a business that he was in sent him back to Ontario to Scarborough to live. There, we had our 4th child and number 3 son. Our family was complete now and we had many great memories in our new life, new homes, and new friends. But, as life never stands still a new opportunity arose and my husband took on a new challenge with his own business and back to Manitoba again. We have lived here ever since and my sons have married and travelled and moved back here too. When 2008 began the New Year my husband took a sudden stroke and died in January. It has left a big hole in my life, but I find as each year passes you make new memories and the pain subsides. It would have been our 50th Anniversary this year. In this day and age, they tell me that is a long time to be with one man. But, they don't know what they are missing by changing partners so many times. Time passed so fast and now I have trouble remembering those days that we had differences, we always went to bed forgiving one another. Thanks be to God. I keep myself busy with part-time work at a Retail store about 15...Expand for more