Eva Adcock Riley
From Eva Riley <evariley AT msn DOT com>
To charles.ray.jones AT verizon.net
Date Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Subject Misc.
Hi Charlie,
Sorry I haven't kept in touch very well. This has been some kind of a summer for me. It started out good, I lost my sister on the 4th of July. Her and her husband lived in Tucson. They Had been married 58 years and 3 days, the day she died. She had fallen and broke her hip and was in a rehab center and was not doing well. They had done surgery and put a pin in and one of the screws came lose so they did a hip replacement, infection set in, her kidneys failed, they had her on life support and of course her husband had to make the hardest decision he ever had to make but she was not going to make it anyway. She was 81 years old. 15 years older than me. We were close. It was really hard for me. Her health had been bad for a long time. She had Rheumatoid Arthritis since she was 29 years old, but she is in no more pain now.
Sherri (Zeller) tells me that Larry Vance is in a hospice with not long to live, has a brain tumor. His family used to be neighbors of ours when we were kids. I felt really bad when I heard this. I hope that you and your family are doing well. As for us, we are still plugging away,for old folks. and like everyone else, getting older, can't avoid that. Charlie, I was going to tell you something and the phone rang and I had to answer it and by the time I got back to the computer I forgot what I was going to say. Oh that makes me so mad.
We had some hot weather for awhile here. One day it got up to 104 and I thought I was in Tucson. That is the reason we left there. We have more humidity here than they do and it was so miserable we just about died but the next week it cooled off. Bucks sister has been here from Tucson since July 1. Right now she is staying with the other brother, but she stayed with us for awhile.. She will be going home the 26th. She lives alone, since she is a single lady. Well, you are probably tired of reading this and have better things to do. Just wanted to say hi. You guys take care. When you have time, drop a line.
As always,
Eva
Eva,
Good to hear from you. Thanks for checking in! Sorry to
hear that you are having medical issues. Comes with being older,
I guess.
We are all doing well. Our oldest daughter, Susan, is managing
her MS well. She also had a bad case of Lupus last year and spent
some time with side effects due to the prednisone steroid
treatments. Coming down off heavy doses of steroids can cause
mental issues. That is over now and she is back to her consulting
work.
Our younger daughter, Jennifer, is getting a doctorate at Auburn
University, and will be coming back to Maryland this summer to start
working again in the school system, at least as far as we know
now. She is still searching for her longterm situation.
Wife Ginny is an 8 year cancer survivor, and we will be walking in a
Komen cancer walk next weekend. We have been very lucky that
things worked out for her. She continues to do very well
medically, although she also has heart valve issues. She is a
school teacher, a reading specialist and very busy.
We are both still working, but it looks like we will start drawing
social security checks next year. I work on a contract for the
Department of Energy since I have 43 years of nuclear experience.
We spend some time at the beach every year, in NC.
We are still very young at heart, and we have grandchildren to watch
grow up. We also have some nieces and nephews in CA, where my sister
lives and where Ron and Jan live, too. Don't see them much, but
everyone is relatively healthy. All of us are a bit overweight, I think.
Thanks for keeping in touch!
Charlie
May 30, 2009
Eva Riley <evariley AT msn DOT com> wrote:
Hi Charlie,
Its me, Eva, again. Its been quite awhile since I have been in touch with you. I think the last time I heard from you, you told me that your oldest daughter had early symptoms of MS. I was wondering how she is doing. Our youngest son is member of the MS society since we know several people who have MS. He got involved in it through his job and goes on the MS walk, raises money and everything, this is the 4th year that he has done it. I have a close friend my age who has it, so it kind of hits home. Would like to know how your daughter is doing.
How is your wife doing and how are you doing? I am doing okay for an old lady. I had to wear a heart monitor for a week. I turned it in last Friday a week ago, but have not heard from my doctor yet. I had some shortness of breath and heart palpitations. They did an EKG and a chest xray and they came out good so we shall see what my doctor says. I have never had heart problems before. I do have high blood pressure, but it is under control. I could stand to lose some weight. I won't tell you how much.
The weather here in our area is warm right now, too warm for
us, we Washingtonians are used to cooler weather and when it gets above
75, its too hot. You do know I am in Washington state, right? In the
Olympia area. I keep in close touch with Sherri Zeller. I asked her if
she knew how many of our classmates were still living and she didn't
know, of course. It sure would be interesting to know. She said Larry
Vance had a brain tumor. How awful. He was a neighbor or ours one time
when we were just kids. Hows Ron and Jan doing?
Well, That is about all for now. You guys take care. Let me
hear from you.
As always,
Eva
Nov 2008
Eva,
Thanks for checking in! It is good to hear that you are still
healthy and doing well. Sorry to hear that your husband is in
poor health. We need to enjoy life while we have good health, of
course, and it does not get any easier to have good health these
days. We tend to get more appreciative of contacts with old
friends and memories, I think, and we are more likely to read letters
and emails in detail when we get them.
We have many classmates to keep in touch with. It seems we get
more into it every 5 or 10 years as the reunion anniversaries come
up. If we can do a better job of keeping in touch, perhaps we
will not be so dependent on hearing sad news to spur
communications. I suppose high school friends and memories are
more easily faded, and other reunions and groups in our lives compete
for our time. High school was at least less complicated than what
followed, and we were probably far more sensitive to the challenges of
high school, even just getting along and trying to get through all the
classes and whatever. Seems like we went to a lot more football
games and basketball games, but then we band members were part of the
show.
Yes, we have grand kids, a 12 year old boy (Jasper) and an 8 year old
girl (Chloe). They were just here Thursday/Thanksgiving, playing
with the electric trains and the doll house, attractions kept special
for them at grandma's house. They are typical kids, keeping their
parents going all the time with their various activities, making me
tired even thinking about all that kids do these days. They are
definitely high tech, but also do horseback riding, fencing,
gymnastics, drums, piano, and whatever. Their mom, our oldest
daughter Susan, has early stages of MS and had a bad episode of lupus
last year, so was hospitalized for a couple weeks. Our other
daughter Jennifer is getting a PhD at Auburn University, working on
political science and community development matters. I even got
to teach one of her classes about the kinds of government issues I see
in the nuclear weapons and nuclear reactor business, basically the
regulation and control of anything nuclear.
Ron and Jan are in Ontario, California, have 2 boys and 5 grand
kids. They are still working and have no plans to retire that I
know of. Ron likes the tax season since he makes a few extra
bucks helping people with their complicated tax forms. I always
have done my own taxes, but it is a hard job.
Wife Ginny is now a 7 year cancer survivor and still teaching, a
reading specialist at an elementary school. We live halfway
between the college she went to, Hood College, and the Naval Academy,
where I attended, so we are often found on one campus or the
other. We go to the Navy football home games and will be at the
Army-Navy Football Game on December 6. I am still working at the
Department of Energy as a contractor, managing about 30 people who are
responsible for screening all the Federal government documents to keep
nuclear weapons secrets (mostly) out of the "Public Domain" which is a
lot harder than it sounds. Everyone that I work with has a Top
Secret clearance, and we are looking to hire more nuclear experienced
people.
Thanks again for the note. Keep in touch!
Charlie
Jones
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Nov 29, 2008 07:34:32 PM, evariley AT msn DOT com wrote:
Hi Charlie,
Just Me, Eva. Remember me?
Just wanted to say hi and see how you and your family are doing
these days. Just got the email from Sherri about Joyce Herring. Was so
sorry to hear about her. She was a real nice girl. I wonder how many of
us is left. I guess we are not getting any younger though are
we? I turned 65 this year, but I feel pretty good
for my age. and try to stay pretty active. I am still in Washington
state. with my family. Our 2 boys are not married. Our oldest will be
30 in March, and the youngest will be 28 in December. I guess you have
grandchildren don't you? I have great nieces and nephews, in fact, I
have a great great nephew. They all live down in Arizona. I was down
there last January. I flew down to visit my sister for a week. She is
80 years old now and is not in real good health.
Where are Ron and Jan now? Are they still in Colorado?
As Always,
Eva
(Adcock) Riley
Subject: Re: Class of 1962
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 12:39:13 -0700
From: motormouth <motormouth AT qwest DOT net>
To: "Charles R. Jones" <c DOT jones AT Technidigm
DOT org>
Hi Charlie,
Glad your wife is doing well
and hope she continues and there are no further problems.
I remember you getting the
John
Phillip Sousa award in band, and why not? You earned it.
you
were the best trumpet player our band ever had in all the years I was
in
the band. I loved hearing you play solos. You could really
make that thing talk. Now, don't let that go to your head, but
you
were good.
Sorry to hear about your
dad.
I remember when your mother died. We were still in Tucson
then.
It is good that your girls got to know their grandfather. Both of
my parents are gone now and my boys never knew my dad. He died a
couple of years before I got married. My oldest, Jamie was only 5 when
mom died and so neither of them even remember her. Dad died in 73
and mom died in 84 at the age of 82. I am thankful that they have
had their other grandparents, even though they are both in Tucson and
we
are in Washington, they were around them a lot when they were small.
and
they have visited us almost every year since we have lived up here, but
not this year because of Bucks moms stroke.
Well you are probably getting bored
with all of this so I am going to run for now.
You guys take care and hope Ginny gets back on her feet
soon.
As always,
Eva (Adcock) Riley
Thanks for the note. Wife Ginny had a mastectomy three weeks ago but is doing quite well.
I heard that Bill Rosecrans had found a stick of dynamite in the desert, which could easily have been hypersensitive to shock. I was not aware of others being involved.
I also remember the good old days, playing in the band. Mr. Wilson awarded me the John Philip Sousa award when we graduated. Still have the little trophy. Just play the trumpet for an occasional funeral now.
Sorry to hear about Buck's mom. Mine died in '72 of cancer. Dad died in 95 after living here in Maryland with us for 10 years of deteriorating health. Our two daughters at least got to know him better than if he had stayed in Tucson.
It is sometimes tough to make it to reunions, but
then
we usually have a good time seeing how much we have changed and what
happened over the years. Most of us are starting
to feel a bit older, and a bit more fragile. Perhaps a little
wiser.
Best,
Charlie
Hi Charlie,
Its me again! I was looking at the list of the deceased and saw Bill Rosecrans name. I do remember when he died. It happened not too far from where I lived. He and 2 or 3 other boys were in a little room in the back of a filling station across the street from Amphi Jr. High School. They were playing around with a homemade bomb. The bomb went off and Bill and one of the other boys was killed instantly. I cannot remember the name of the other kid that got killed. I can remember that they had a large area of Prince Road blocked off. It was very tragic. Don't think I will ever forget that. I am sorry, I said that I remembered when that happened, but I don't remember what year it was. I just remember about the incident. Just thought you might be interested in what happened.
I hope all is well over in your part of the country. I think the last time you wrote, you said that your wife was going to have surgery. I hope that came out okay and that it wasn't too serious. Bucks mom had a stroke just recently(Buck is my husband in case you didnt know) and now they won't be able to come up for Donnies graduation. She is doing pretty good right now, but not able to travel.
Oh by the way, guess what movie we watched tonight? Buck and I watched "Stars and Stripes Forever". It was the life story of John Phillip Sousa. It just took me back to the old days of high school and being in the band and made me a little homesick. Oh well.
That is about it for now. You guys take care. It is always good to hear from old classmates. I doubt that I will make it to the reunion, but you never know what might happen a year from now. Well, I am out of here!
As Always,
Eva (Adcock) Riley
We are assuming that what Clem Mercer said is true, although it would be good to have a bit more confirmation. Clem said that he had heard from two different sources that Ron had a heart attack a few months ago. I will wait a few days before putting it on the web list, in the event someone has more on this.
Thanks for the information on Pat and Nancy Freeman. We put it on the webpage a while back in response to your previous message.
You are doing well if your oldest son is just graduating from high school! Our oldest daughter graduated from high school 14 years ago. We still feel pretty young, nevertheless, and we plan to pretend a lot regardless!
Thanks for checking in!
Best regards,
Charlie
Subject: Re: Ron Rife
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:31:54 -0700
From: Eva Riley <motormouth AT uswest DOT net>
To: "Charles R. Jones"
Charlie, Just learned of Ron Rifes
death.
What happened? Was it sudden or what? I am so sorry.
I do remember him from band. I also have a name to add to the
list
of those who have passed on. I don't know if you remember Pat
Freeman
or not. She was sister of Nancy Freeman whom I was good friends
with.
Pat passed away of cancer in the early 80s, sometime around
1982-83.
Nancy also passed away from a brain tumor in March of 91. Nancy
was
in the class of 61. Pat was in our class. By the way, our
oldest
son just graduated from high school this June. They really do
grow
up fast and makes us feel so old.
Hope all is well with you. You take care and always remember the good old days.
Eva (Adcock) Riley
Hi Charlie,
Just to let
you
know my email address is motormouth AT uswest DOT net. Also want
to let
you know that there is another of our deceased classmates that I know
about
that is not listed. Patricia Freeman.
Her married name was Hays. She passed away from cancer in the early
80s.
I think
it was about 82 or 83.
Also,
since we were in band together, do you remember Nancy
Freeman? She and I were real good friends.
She also passed away in 91 from a brain tumor. She was in the
class
of 61. She and Pat were sisters. Just a bit of news.
Well, that is all for
now.
Thanks for keeping in touch.
As
Always,
Eva (Adcock) Riley.
Apr-25 1999, 4:08 pm
From: CHARLES JONES
To: EVA ADCOCK 1962
Hi Eva,
I tried sending you a note earlier, responding to your posting [CLASSMATES.COM]. You may have gotten that by now. I have started a page for '62 classmates on my web site at <http://Technidigm.org/amphi62.htm>. There is quite a bit of info and email contact links that you might want to check out.
Ginny and I have been married for 33 years, have two daughters and a grandson, with a granddaughter on the way. I am currently an engineering consultant who specializes in inspecting commercial nuclear power plants. Yet, it seems likely I'll be going back to school to learn a little more about business and information management.
Hope to see you at the 40th in a couple of years.
Charlie Jones
Apr-25 11:07 am
From: EVA ADCOCK
To: CHARLES JONES 1962
Hi Charlie! Remember me from band? I saw your message about the class reunion. 40 years. Cant believe it, or maybe I just don't want to admit that I am that old. Last time I saw you was at the 20th class reunion. Since then, my family and I have moved to the State of Washington. My boys are all grown up now. Jamie just turned 21 and Donnie is 19. My husband of almost 24 years, Buck works for the State of Washington as a Computer Programmer. What are you doing with your time now? Where is your brother Ron and his family now? Would love to hear from you.
As always,
Eva (Adcock) Riley