(Nelson),+Patsy+Craig

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 * Patsy (Nelson) Craig**

**1969:**The last 10 years have been very busy for me.After graduation I worked in Seattle for Bell Telephone Co., for a few months, at the same time taking a correspondence course with an airline school.In Jan., 1961 I went to Kansas City, MO to complete this.Was then employed by Northwest Orient Airlines and lived and worked in Minneapolis and Detroit for one year.In April 1962 was married to David Craig from Alanson, Mich. Where we now live.We have 2 children, Eric 6 and Karen 4.We own a 30 acre farm and I still have my horses.The past 4 summers I have taught horseback riding at a kids summer camp.


 * 1979:** We are still living in Alanson, a small town in northern Michigan; however, are making plans to move back to Mount Vernon, hopefully this summer. Winters here are much too long; we have snow from November through April. I taught horsemanship for seven years at a summer camp, then drove school bus for seven years. In 1973 we built a boarding stable and in 1975 opened a Western Jack Shop, which takes a lot of my time. We have three children, Eric, 16; Karen, 14; and Kirk, 5. Sure hope to be able to be at our reunion.

**1999:**I think I get busier every year.In 1962 I married David Craig.He was from Michigan (northern) so we lived there for 30 years.We have 3 children.Eric is 36, Karen is 34 and Kirk is 25.No grandchildren. David’s father lived with us from 1980 to 1990.We also sponsored 2 exchange students during that time, a boy from Germany in 1987 and a girl from Denmark in 1989. In 1992 we moved back to Mount Vernon in order to be closer to my parents, as they were beginning to need help.I feel very lucky to still have both of them. We live where I grew up and I’m still driving school bus and yes, I still have a horse but we also have been raising Labrador dogs since 1975.

**2009:** Where have all of the years gone---We moved back to Mount Vernon in 1992 to be closer to Dad and Mom as they were starting to need help.David went to work as a licensed electrician at the Anacortes refinery and I started driving schoolbus for Mount Vernon in the fall of 1993 and drove until 2005 when we moved back to Michigan to be closer to our 3 kids and granddaughter.I drove for the local school district for one year after we came back here then retired for good.We have a beautiful new home and brought many of the” family keepsakes” back with us, makes it feel more line “home”.  I still have a horse but have downsized to a “Mini”, he is only 36 inches tall and am in the process of teaching him to pull a cart.We still raise Labrador Retriever dogs and donate a few from each litter to Leader Dog for the Blind in Rochester, Michigan, all 5 that we have donated since we moved back here have finished their training and been placed with blind people. We have a vegetable garden and I have lots of flowers that keep me busy in the summer.The winters here are long, November to April, lots of snow and cold weather, not real fond of that. I am trying to stay healthy, arthritis is my big enemy, have had 9 surgeries since we moved back here, the latest was bilateral knee replacement last August, I really questioned my sanity for about a month after the surgery, not fun havingthem both done at one time but I kept telling myself that “I can do this”.  Am planning to be at the reunion in August, hope to see everyone then.

April 2015:
 * My winter project has been going through and trying to organize “old” photos. This picture project has been a monumental project, first I took all of the pictures out of my parents and David’s parents albums and all of our albums. Then sorted by year, then from each year I made piles for each of our three kids. I have made family albums for my parents that start a couple years before they were married, also a family album for David’s parents families. We raised Labrador dogs for 40 years so have lots of “litter” pictures, there are two albums for dogs. I also bred and raised several horses for 40 years so have two albums of the horses. I also have 3 albums for David and I that start in 1960. Most of the pictures taken after the kids were born are in their albums. This is the second winter I have worked on these pictures. I now have enough albums so when I find more pictures there is a place to put them. I know if I did not do this my kids would not be able to identify many of the pictures. I also have a LARGE box of negatives, many black and white. I think next winter when it is to cold to do anything outside we will buy a negative scanner to see how many we want pictures of, this might be fun. I have got to have something to do when it is snowing outside besides count snowflakes.

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The picture with Kirby etc. to your left was the 20th reunion in 1979; the one with Whoolery & Whalen was the 30th in 1989.

By the way, these pictures are on the website!

Sounds as if you've got quite a project going, one which your kids will appreciate more and more as years go by.

I'll take some excerpts from your letter describing your project and add them to your page on the website--tomorrow!

Janet

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Patsy Craig  wrote:> Just looking for information, especially dates.

My winter project has been going through and trying to organize “old” photos. Much to my dismay I have not even put the year on some of the pictures. I have two reunion pictures with no year. Can you look these pictures up and let me know what year they were taken?

The first is a color picture with Larry Whelan and Steve Woollery on the right. The second is a color picture and in the row I am standing in there is Sandra Kirby, Lynn Esary and Jody Gordon on my left.

This picture project has been a monumental project, first I took all of the pictures out of my parents and David’s parents albums and all of our albums. Then sorted by year, then from each year I made piles for each of our three kids. I have made family albums for my parents that start a couple years before they were married, also a family album for David’s parents families. We raised Labrador dogs for 40 years so have lots of “litter” pictures, there are two albums for dogs. I also bred and raised several horses for 40 years so have two albums of the horses. I also have 3 albums for David and I that start in 1960. Most of the pictures taken after the kids were born are in their albums. This is the second winter I have worked on these pictures. I now have enough albums so when I find more pictures there is a place to put them.

I know if I did not do this my kids would not be able to identify many of the pictures. I also have a LARGE box of negatives, many black and white. I think next winter when it is to cold to do anything outside we will buy a negative scanner to see how many we want pictures of, this might be fun. I have got to have something to do when it is snowing outside besides count snowflakes.

Thanks again for all you do for our class.

Patsy Craig (Nelson)


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