(Peterson),+Mona+Kerr

2613 North Busby Road Oak Harbor, WA 98277 360-675-2330 jack-mona@comcast.net
 * Mona (Peterson) Kerr**

**1969: **After two years of college, I married and my husband and I made our first home in Idaho Falls, Idaho. In the spring of ’62 we moved to northern California where our two girls, now 4 and 6, were born. We decided in the spring of ’68 that this world is too large and lovely to not see, so my husband, Dennis, is now in the overseas division of Western Union and for now we’re enjoying Hawaiian living, especially since we’ve always enjoyed the outdoors. From here, who knows?


 * 1979:** I will miss everyone at the reunion, but we'll be in Hawaii at the time. At the time of our last reunion I lived there and was visiting Mount Vernon...wish I could be there again for this one but this is an exceptional trip. Hawaii still has its hold to some extent. Since '69 I attended the University of Hawaii for two years and then moved with my family to the Sierra foothills, east of Sacramento. My daughters and I then lived alone from 1973 until now and I worked as an RN in the area. On April 29th of this year I was married to a very special person in my life--John Mathewson--and we're truly enjoying these days. If you're in the area please stop!!!


 * 1999: **After our last reunion, I returned to those ivy halls for post-graduate work in nursing…job security and all that. In the past several years, I’ve traveled quite a bit with work. I teach in the telehealth field, specifically, disease state management. Like most of us, work, family & community have kept my months and years speeding by. I’m in Mt. Vernon several times yearly. My immediate family is gone but I’ve lots of wonderful cousins, nephews, nieces and friends.


 * 2009**: It truly is us celebrating our 50th, isn't it?. Whoodathot? And what a special time we'll have this August. So many of our lives changed dramatically in the last 10 years especially with retirement. I've gone from traveling and teaching telehealth in 1999 to a wonderfully full "retirement" on Whidbey Island. In December 2005, after 17 years of "widowhood", I married Jack Kerr (MVHS class of '58). Ours is a fun, very serendipitous story and we're enjoying it daily. I'm finally getting to do all the gardening I want and Jack is surviving my "learning to cook" again. We have an annual MVHS '58 get-together the 2nd weekend of each August in our backyard to which the class of '59 is invited. We live in the country. Click here for picture of Jack & Mona winning the raw egg toss at Easter