Nancy Sloan:  

After high school, I went to junior college for a year at Moorpark J.C. Then, I got married to Darryl Merl Sloan. He was my first crush, and a classmate of ours in the Class of 1968. I thought I was going to be an old maid. Maybe that is why I pursued my studies in high school so much. I was looking through my report cards the other day and I did have a lot of A's. After we got married, we eventually moved to Sacramento. My dad took a job with the State Water Resources Department. He was an engineer and I wanted to be near my parents. I graduated from Cosumnes River College with Honors. My degree was in Secretarial Science. Cosumnes is a quaint J.C. right next to the Cosumnes River in Sacramento. Then I went to Sacramento State College. I graduated from Sac. State in 1973. It is now California State University, Sacramento. My degree was in Social Science, with an emphasis in Anthropology. After college, I lived in Sacramento for awhile. Darryl and I bought our first home there. A beautiful three bedroom condominium for under $20,000. Can you believe it! My how prices have changed in the housing market since then. Over the years, I lived in various places, including Brookings, OR; Portland, OR; Phoenix, AZ and Oxnard, CA. Darryl and I had one daughter. Her name is Kelly Marie. She is 28. Over the years, Darryl worked as a real estate agent/owner and was a building contractor in Oregon for a while. Darryl was extremely bright and had a genius IQ. Unfortunately, Darryl died suddenly in 1992. The doctor's say it was heart failure. His father died at 49. Darryl was 42 when he died. I currently work as a substitute teacher. My biggest surprise was that I never thought I would have as interesting a life, as I have had. I lived on the Columbia River at one time in a boat house. I lived in a custom built home that Darryl built in Brookings, OR that overlooked the Chetco River and that had a mountain stream running down the side of it. Everywhere I lived was unique in it own way. Boating was a passion for me when I was younger. We always had a boat, either a fishing boat, a speed boat, a houseboat, or a drift boat, depending on where we lived. Life, I must say, has been pretty exciting. Never a dull moment. My favorite way to blow off steam is to have a day of beauty (getting my nails done, getting my hair done, a massage, perhaps getting a make-up lesson. Currently, I live in Oxnard with my boyfriend, John. He is considerably younger than I. He thinks I dress like I probably did 30 years ago. I don't think so though. I don't dress like a teenager I dress my age. Most people think I look at least ten years younger than I really am. My daughter is not that old, only 28,...Expand for more