Nancy Jones:  

After we graduated, I was accepted into the school of nursing at Charleston General. I loved it and did well until... Tommy Jones, do you remember him? He lived across the street from us in Chesapeake, anyway he joined the Coast Guard and was stationed on an ice cutter, the Storis out of Kodiak, Alaska. He wrote to me at the General and wanted to know if any of the girls there were interested in becoming pen pals with some of the coast guard guys. Several of us agreed we would do it, so the guys sent questionnaires to us and we were suppose to answer them plus send back a picture. Tommy was already engaged to Connie Spainhour from Marmet; so he was just the liason, I guess? Anyway, Ken Jones, from Tampa, FL, picked my questionnaire & picture and we started corresponding. We wrote for over a year with a few holiday calls from the pier in Kodiak. Eventually he ask me to marry him; and since his time was up for that tour he would be going to New Orleans to be reassigned after home leave. He had a buddy that was going to Groton, CT for his next duty station, so Mom & Dad allowed Ken to come to Chesapeake via his buddy and to stay for a couple of weeks so we could get to know each other!!! The school of nursing gave us 2 weeks off each year so I was able to correlate that with when he would be arriving. We had a great time, picked out engagement rings, and about that time my Dad told him it was time he went to Tampa to see his mother (He must have been a mind reader). I went back to nursing school ready to begin my senior year and lo & behold I had morning sickness. Dr. Soulyret? Verified that I was 3 months along so I called Ken and told him but also said he didn't have to marry me if he didn't still feel the same way. I knew he had been home and his old girlfriends were there and he now was stationed in Houston, Texas. He was so excited; that he bought a car off of a guy on the base, a great 1957 Chevy-customized; all chrome removed. Drove to WV & we were married by a JP in Marmet, then went to the Houston area for 5 years. More about him another time.. We were married for 35 years, Have 3 sons, 45, 46, 47, 9 grandchildren, I have contact with, 2 I know of that I don¿t, 2 great-grand sons, that we have no contact with. March 31, 1994 Ken was diagnosed with AML, a form of leukemia, and he died on October 4, 1995. He was 57 years old. Sounds like a soap opera doesn't it; it gets better & worse as time goes on. On February 7th, 2008, I will be single again after an unfortunate decsion, in November of 2006, to marry a guy from Charleston that I had been seeing & then living of & on with from 2001 until 2006. We stayed together for 1 month. But it takes a year of not being together to dissolve a marriage...no-fault at least. If you read my profile on reunion, you'll know that I now live in Elm City, NC and like it real well. It is a small town, doesn't even have a drive thru restaurant. In fact the bank closes from 1-3 every day and not opened at all on the weekends. So you have to learn real quick to plan on getting every thing done when they are opened or use the two non-bank ATM's available in town, or go to Wilson the next larger city...only 10 minutes away just a hassle I don't want. My Late husband, Ken, retired with 21+ years in the Coast Guard and then retired from the Postal Service in 1993¿So we moved around a bit, 5 years-Houston, Texas-1 year-Vietnam for him-Chesapeake for ...Expand for more