Patrece Bennett:  

CLASS OF 1966
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Topeka High SchoolClass of 1966
Topeka, IN

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I was SO aggrivated with my parents for 'yanking' me out of THS in the spring of my Junior year to move to California!! My Grandpa & Grandma Jones would have let me stay with them until Graduation, but I think Mom especially wanted me to go with them to help her. Oh, well ... off I went! Became a very small fish in the very BIG pond of Arcadia High School (the class was 10 times as big a ALL of THS!) I made it through & married Wes Wilkey (from Goshen), who'd moved to CA soon after we had. We had 1 daughter, Stephani, her 4 boys & husband lives not far from me. She & her husband have 4 sons - she's a Cardiac Intensive Care Nurse (She was inspired when she was a teenager and was out 'goofing off' when she was supposed to be home in bed when David, who I married later, had a major heart attack. She found out the next day.) My younger daughter, Claudine, lives in Las Vegas with her husband and son. She has Multiple Sclorsis so we don't get to see her too ...Expand for more
often. I had an active, busy carrier ... Was Director of Risk Management for a Fortune 400 Company for a number of years & also worked as an Insurance Broker for Fortune 500 Clients. A lot of travel (which I enjoyed) I was the first female on the floor of Lloyd's of London! (And I NEVER wore a 'pantsuit! ... though I always wore a taylored suit!) Seems like years ago now ... Have recently been diagnosed with early onset early/mid-term Alzheimer's disease. ARGH!! After getting lost too many times driving and burning up too many pans, I moved to a very nice assisted living facility 2+ years ago. Brought all my own furnishings so it seems like home. This year they asked me to help put in the first vegetable garden - that was fun! Guess I've come a ways from the farm, but sure like to get my hands in the dirt whenever I can ... I think it's in the genes - ha! Patrece
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