After graduation I attended Pittsburg State College (now University) for two years majoring in journalism.  In between the first and second years I married Jim Spieth.    Jim was commissioned a 2^nd Lt. in the U.S. Army and we proceeded to a new life.  Our first move was to Ft. Bliss, Texas (El Paso) and we were there no less than 6 times over the next 12 years.  Jim’s first real station was in Chicago.  We were there during the Chicago riots, and the famous Chicago Presidential Convention of 1968.  Our first son, Guy,  was born in January of 1969 at Great Lakes Navel Hospital. 

From Chicago, Jim went to Viet Nam and I returned to Girard for the duration. When Jim returned home we were again sent to Ft. Bliss and nine months later our second son, Dusty, was born.    

Then our greatest adventure came when Jim was sent to Germany.  We were there for three years and for the first year and a half we lived with a German family in a small village.  I took full advantage of the chance to SHOP and learn the German culture. We were in Germany during the Munich Olympics and the terrorist attack. 

After Germany we went to northern North Dakota for a year and a half.  We were there during the 3 day blizzard of 1975.  Seems like we were always in the wrong place at the wrong time!  During our stay in North Dakota, I took up bowling as a way of life - 12 miles from the Canadian border there was not a lot to do.  I bowled on every league except the men’s!  In 1976 I  won first place in both the high game and high series categories at the North Dakota State Championship Tournament.  Then my partner and I went to the Nationals in Denver and we took 4^th place.  That was the high point in my bowling career.

Unfortunately, late in 1976 Jim and I divorced and I moved back to SE Kansas for good.  I went to secretarial school and got a job with the State of Kansas, where I have been employed for the past 26 years. I have been a CETA (now JETPA) representative, Appeals Referee’s secretary, and am now the Administrative Support Supervisor for the Ks. Dept. of Health and Environment, Surface Mining Section in Frontenac.  Our section regulates the active coal mining in the state, reclaims the environmental hazards left by past coal mining activities and abates the subsidences caused by the underground mining in Pittsburg, Scammon and Weir.  I really enjoy my job (most of the time) and feel we do a good service to the community.  I tend to all the office files, project tracking, purchasing, personnel and generally everything else. 

Six years after moving back here I married Don Huntsinger, a local real estate agent.  Sadly,  he died of complications following a kidney transplant in 1988.  Four years later I married Terry DoByns and we divorced in 2001. 

Guy is a paramedic in Collier County (Naples), Florida.  His wife, Heather, is also a fireman/paramedic.  She has an 11 year old daughter, Katy, and together they have a daughter, Brenna, born December, 2001.  Guy is very active in the Explorer Scout program and this year was awarded Collier County Employee of the Month and the Explorer Scout Leader of the Year for his district.  He also just recently earned his private pilots license.                                                                             (Julie, Dustin, Guy, & Heather Spieth)

Dusty is a Sales Representative/Technician for DEPCO, Inc. located in Pittsburg, Kansas.  They make computer modules for schools and he sells, sets up, installs and does presentations, all of which involves a lot of traveling.  His wife, Julie, teaches middle and high school English classes in Jasper, Mo.  Dusty has given me two of the lights of my life: James, age 7, a second grader in Girard and Jessica, age 6, a Kindergartner in Frontenac.  Dusty earned his Eagle Scout award while in high school, and is now involved in stock car racing.  So both of my sons have done well with their lives, but give me gray hairs with their hobbies!!   (Jessica, Katy, James, Brenna)