Strike while the iron's hot
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:12 pm
Yesterday I was making a start on clearing out the loft, as you do when not doing genealogy, when I started pondering over some memorabilia I had kept from the 1960s when I used to have a pen-pal, Sherron Foell, who lived in New Mexico, USA.
We corresponded for about 8 years and for reasons such as leaving school, starting to go out to work for a living and Sherron going on to University etc. our correspondence stopped. Many times over the years I"™ve wondered "how is my pen-pal, what has she been doing with her life, is she happy, married, got children"¦.."
On finding this memorabilia yesterday, I thought right, with all this computer technology on offer, I"™m going to try and find her. After about just 10 minutes searching on the internet, I found in an Arizona newspaper that Sherron had died last year at the age of 61. I could not believe it, it was such a shock. All those years of thinking about her and never "getting around" trying to find her, I was absolutely gutted. I"™ve left a message on the newspaper"™s web site to make a plea on my behalf if any of Sherron"™s family would contact me.
On a brighter note. I found from Sherron"™s obituary, that she had received a Masters Degree from Northern Arizona University, she worked as a school psychologist and special education director, was a member of the First Southern Baptist Church in Cornville and enjoyed sewing and quilting. Sherron married Glen and they have a daughter and 3 grandchildren.
So folks, "strike while the iron"™s hot", and "don"™t put off until tomorrow what you can do today" because you could have regrets like I have.
We corresponded for about 8 years and for reasons such as leaving school, starting to go out to work for a living and Sherron going on to University etc. our correspondence stopped. Many times over the years I"™ve wondered "how is my pen-pal, what has she been doing with her life, is she happy, married, got children"¦.."
On finding this memorabilia yesterday, I thought right, with all this computer technology on offer, I"™m going to try and find her. After about just 10 minutes searching on the internet, I found in an Arizona newspaper that Sherron had died last year at the age of 61. I could not believe it, it was such a shock. All those years of thinking about her and never "getting around" trying to find her, I was absolutely gutted. I"™ve left a message on the newspaper"™s web site to make a plea on my behalf if any of Sherron"™s family would contact me.
On a brighter note. I found from Sherron"™s obituary, that she had received a Masters Degree from Northern Arizona University, she worked as a school psychologist and special education director, was a member of the First Southern Baptist Church in Cornville and enjoyed sewing and quilting. Sherron married Glen and they have a daughter and 3 grandchildren.
So folks, "strike while the iron"™s hot", and "don"™t put off until tomorrow what you can do today" because you could have regrets like I have.
The message simply said Friends??
I'm so pleased I've been able to put him back in perspective and rediscover what a nice person, he is. We were just the wrong people to marry each other.