Mary Rankin

Pittsfield High School

Class of 1944

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Mary Rankin - Class of 1944 - Pittsfield High School

First Name	Mary
Last Name	Rankin
Graduation Year	Class of 1944
Gender	Female
Current Location	Derry, New Hampshire
Hometown	Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Relationship Status	Single
About Me	This is written Sept. 27, 2913' for six years I have been a widow now, living in Derry, New Hampshire, not far from daughter Annie and her family who live in Chester, NH. Juan. TOM, Julie, Laurie Beth and Juan Nick Pliakios. LB is waiting to hear if she passed the MASS and NEW Hampshire bar exam, living in Chester for now, . I live with my son, Bill and his wife, Susan and children, Rebecca (Becca) and Charlie. their Heather and husband Barry moved here to Derry, NH not far from us.<Bill & Sue have their first grandchild, too. .I joined the First Baptist Church in Derry, NH.... I was born and grew up in western Massachusetts and Bob was born and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia.. He came to my church in Pittsfield when he graduated from Georgia Tech.......well he finished classes in April and graduation in June. We would have been married for 65 years this October 9, 2012. I have 5 children, all married and 16 grandchildren, with just 3 great grands. with one coming in just a few months. And all wonderful, of course. I lived in Piscataway, New Jersey for 49 years with Bob and that is where our five children, Bob , John, Jim, Bill and Annie grew up......I'm still taking oil painting classes after 20 years! My favorite . and.0 I enjoyed activities for the wives of Professors at Rutgers University where Bob taught Electrical Engineering for 44 years. Not forgetting Rutgers football and basketball games and going in to New York City for plays We travelled a lot, especially after he retired from Rutgers. Mostly we travelled together, but I did take some trips alone (with ladies to London or NYC), or with Annie and her Laurie Beth or my sister Gert,.. we went to London on those trips..Bob and I went to London,England 16 times, to Ireland, Scotland, and anywhere we could.....and to a lot of Elderhostel weeks,for History and Music, Also Bob and I went for Trips to Alaska, all around the USA, South Africa, Venice, Rome, and France, Germany, Toronto, I put "Interested in WOMEN" because I had to either click onto women or men, and I like to correspond with women from all over. Our Bob and wife, Karen live in Austin, Texas and Bob travels for extended stays to Manila in the Philippines. from 1 to 3 months at a time. Their son Greg and wife Pam are both with the US State Dept. in Manila and have little boys William and Patrick.New little boy coming soon...their daughter, Tracy is teaching in a school in Myanmar......and I'm not sure about the town...Johnny and his wife Lynne (who teaches in a yarn shop in Princeton, NJ) live in Pennington, NJ.>>John is an attorney in Princeton...young Johnny is at Boston Univ. and Lauren works at the Hun School nearby....and their Amy is always in our thoughts and prayers, keeping the angels happy....Jimmy is something in the computer field.....in Indianapolis, Indiana and I will be visiting them there in a few weeks. (I spent 3 Christmas holidays with them in Wisconsin) Jim's wife Linda and he have Hillary and Ruthie, both of whom graduated from college this spring.also Bob at college and Cameron in high school........Bill....see above..:-)...........Annie teaches in Manchester, NH..HOSA is the name of the class..Health....She has been a nurse since '83 and always does something in the health field.CATCHING UP.....Annie now teaches same subjects but in Exeter school . My computer keeps me in touch with everone. My lady friends back in Piscataway write to me and we talk on the phone so it seems we've never left. In. July Annie Julie and I went to NEW JERSEY to see my John, Lynne, Johnny and Lauren. ALSO to the Philadelphia Zoo with John, Lynne, Johnny and Lauren also GREG and William, Paptch and Ian writh Lea, their Nanny And Nancy Pontius, Pam' s sister. Pam was in Tokyo. Thirteen of us for dinner in Philadelphia. A terrific day, wiNew Hampshire is a beautiful state and wonderful people. i'm still having trouble 'getting around' with a walker but expect to be AOK someday! ! ...so write to me at loulina@aol.com, okay? And I never had a "real" job. Certainly not at Northland Univ. Nor the Army nor any place else. Greg and Pam have son # 3 named Ian one year old recently So'l correct as I see the need. Have a new Kindlefire a few days old, nice that it always works! And Greg and family living in Washington, DC now. Living in Silver ...(read more)