Mary Ross (Mary Reeder)

Ashland High School

Class of 1973

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First Name	Mary
Last Name	Ross
Maiden Name	Reeder
Graduation Year	Class of 1973
Gender	Female
Current Location	Tucson, Az
Hometown	Ashland, Oregon
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	After getting out of the Army (ASA in Augsburg Germany mainly) I had 3 children, 2 born in Germany, on in Texas. When I separated from my then husband, I worked with my brother in law as a carpenter's apprentice. No fun when you are afraid of height and the first job he puts you on is carrying sheets of plywood across roof ridge when it is still a skeleton. Then I moved to Grants Pass and worked at the Weasku Inn as a cook. After that I worked at a dog training kennel. I did training for the Josephine Sheriff K9 unit. Basically I've had a lot of jobs. When I worked for GEICO we would often play 2 truths and a lie, and I used my jobs as truths. We played it by lumping answers together such as: who trained a dressage horse, who took Russian in the Army etc. After awhile, no matter how weird the job, they chose me as the one who... I got into animal rescue, working at the local Humane Society and I now run a feral colony. A few years ago we received a card from the Humane Society that waid that we had spayed or neutered over a thousand feral cats at their clinic. Here in Tucson there can be 3 or 4 litter seasons a year so it takes a long time to age out a colony, but we are now down to 9 elderly feral cats, and we have had no kittens for 3 years. I became a vegan 11 years ago, and my doctors tell me it probably saved my life when I had a heart attack last year. Are there any other vegans out there? I went to college pretty late, and got better grades than I did in high school. I was the Financial officer for Phi Theta Kappa honor society and graduated summa cum laude, and was the top winner gaining a full scholarship for a 4 year college in Arizona. Funny story about that: when I went to the award ceremony for the scholarship, I was the invited guest. For dinner I requested a vegan meal. They gave me a plate of lettuce w...(read more)