Ruth Campbell nee Whitener

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Write a biography oh my what a dilemma. How does Average Joe or Rosie the Riveter go about this? My best accomplishment was the raising of a loving, loyal, law abiding and now able to take care of themselves pair of children. Although not a glamorous accomplishment I am quite proud of it. After graduation I worked in an office in Clayton filing and computing payroll time sheets. Was married in 1958. Boy baby in 1959. I started working my first factory job, of many over the years, in 1960. There were 8 factories total. Three I quit for better job, four plants shut down on me, and I retired from the last one. Most of the plants were union shop and I started at the bottom so if someone was absent I had to take their place. Thus learning about every job in the plant. Lets see there were airplanes, truck brake shoes, skirt hangers, small furniture, florescent light fixtures, vending machines, fifty-five gallon drums and heating sensors. Girl baby in 1961. I finally figured out that a divorce was necessary in 1970. Twelve years of ups and downs and the downs took over. The next fifteen years were spent raising my two children alone without help of any kind and surviving layoffs. In 1984 the children flew the coop. The years from 1985 to 1992 were the best years of my life with a fantastic marriage, ending in widowhood. The 1993 flood destroyed my home on the river with five foot of water and it took me three years to rebuild with the help of my children and brother. By 2000 being a river-rat got to be too much work for an old lady. I am now living with my single daughter and doing well sharing expenses and each other. In 1995 got interested in computers and now spend a lot of time at www.pogo.com. This is a game room accompanied with chat. If your on the computer in the early morning hours you can catch me there under the name bell4dave. Just add this name to a friends list and it will tell you where I am at. Click on it and it will take you right to the game room I am in. Planning to go to the reunion. Ruth Whitener class of 1957