After graduation I went to cosmetology school in Topeka and Manhattan. I graduated in 1970. I got married in May of 1970. I moved to Fort Worth Tex where I lived until 1972. I then moved back to JC where my daughter, Christina, was born in Mar. 73. In Sept. 1973 I moved to Ne. and then a year later moved to Cheyenne Wy. My second daughter (Misty Dawn) was born in Oct. 1975 and I was divorced in Dec. 1975.

I went back to cosmetology school in the early part of 1975 and graduated with a Wy. License in Dec. 1975. In 1977 I went back to school to learn Floral Designing and graduated that year. I owned my first floral shop in Cheyenne from 1978-1979 when I moved to Hi.

In 1978 I met the most wonderful man and the love of my life. Tom was stationed at FE Warren AFB here in Cheyenne. We were married in Honolulu Hi. in 1979. (Tom had 2 daughters from his first marriage-Lorene born 1974 and Julie born 1977.) Our son (Thomas A. Harris III) was born July 1979. In Dec. 1980 our youngest was born (Kilipaki). We lived in Hi. until 1984 when the Air Force said it was time to move to Ca., then a year later to NM, and a year and a half later to Taegu, South Korea for 2 years. Finally back to Cheyenne Wy. where Tom retired form the Air Force. After retirement we moved back to Hi. for 2 years.

When our girls started college and wanting to get married we moved back to Wy. With 4 girls and 2 boys it only seemed right that we would open our own Bridal shop. For the first couple of years I ran the shop from home then we opened the doors to our new shop in 1994 in Castle Rock, Colorado and in 1996 we brought everything back to the house and moved back to Wy. We now live in Cheyenne and I volunteer many hours a month for The Airman's Attic on the base.

We have 7 Grandbabies that we totally dote on. Michael James born 1995, Noah Daniel born 1997, Corie Amanda born 1997, Nicholas Duane born 1997, Zacharia Thomas born 1999, Christopher Michael born 1999, and last but not least Elijah Layne born June 2001.

Two of our Children live in Cheyenne with us. Tina and her husband and 2 boys, Nick and Chris, and Tom and his wife. Kili and his wife live in Rawlins Wy. and work at the State Prison as guards and Kili is also in the Wy. Air National Guard. Julie lives in Ct. with her son Mike and Lorene lives in Ct. with her husband and our only grandaughter Corie. Misty and her husband and 3 boys, Noah, Zach and Elijah, are stationed at Hickam AFB, Hi. I am very proud of all of my children and grandbabies. Some things never change--I'm just as long winded now as I was in high school.

Pat if you need to shorten this you can I'm not sure how much room you have for each classmate bio. Hopefully this isn't too boring. Its hard to fit 33 years in a short space. You sure have a good looking family there!!
Good luck with finding all of our classmates,

Gerry Harris (of Tom and Gerry)