After high school graduation, I attended Colorado Women's College graduating in 1958.   I picked up Education - did student teaching in a fourth grade in Denver.   Was offered a fourth grade position in Whitehall teaching there one year.   Moved to Missoula, taught 5-6 combination classroom for two years, getting in another quarter each summer at UM. Graduated BA at UM in 1962.
      I have four beautiful daughters - Edrie, Adele, Heidi, and Katrina; Three grandaughters, three grandsons.
      I have lived in many interesting places and cultures:   Guam, Atlanta, GA, Polson, Hamilton, Missoula, Spokane, WA.
      I've been in Spokane since 1991 working at Fairchild Air Force Base as a Family Child Care Coordinator. I married Carl Vennes in April of 1993 and we have ten grandchildren.   Carl and I met square dancing in Spokane.   I retired in January of 2001.   We love to travel in our motor home & plan to return to Yuma in January, 2007. We love all our family and stay busy visiting, camping, etc.   I'm an active member of the Red Hat Honey's, volunteer for the CASA Bee Kind Garden (working with sexually abused children),   active in our church community,   and a proud member of the Bosom Buddies - do all the breast cancer walks, etc.
      Carl is from Malta - the family farmed and he graduated from high school in 1962.   You could say I robbed the cradle.