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Today's Featured Biography
Becky Gloth Blair
Life has been blessed and I look back on my memories at CHS fondly. I enjoy reading the biographies posted online. How to not bore you with my bio is the challenge today.
After graduation, I continued on to Creighton University (B.A.) and University of Nebraska – Omaha (M.S.) to complete degrees in Speech/Language Pathology. I worked in the Omaha Public Schools for two years, got married, and then we continued on to Rapid City, S.D. Those young years there: baby Stephanie (1984 – 1984), and Aubrey (1985). We enjoyed the Black Hills and all they offer with hiking/camping and seeing the sights, making new friends while working - worked part-time at the Black Hills Rehab Hospital. We then relocated to beautiful Colorado – Colorado Springs! I was working at Penrose Hospital until school loans were paid off (whew!) and the dental practice was up and running, and then joyfully was a stay-at-home mom for Aubrey (1985) and Zach (1988) for 17 years. With kids, that included the chauffeuring to ballet, sports, music lessons, scouting, and being a Girl Scout leader. Being a mom (and now grandmother) is absolutely the best!
Following 26 years of marriage ending, along with an empty nest, I returned to work in 2007 working primarily with patients for stroke rehab, head injury, and swallowing disorders. Life was busy with my adult children, a new grandson, AND NOW I am a newlywed once again after meeting an amazing gentleman in 2013, Bob. After asking my kids for their permission and blessing (which of course they said yes!), Bob and I were married last year, 2015, at Albertson Park in Boise! It was a special way to honor my dad who passed in 1993. My mother as well as my brother and his family still live in Boise, so we still visit quite a bit. Bob and I live in Durango, and still have a home in Colorado Springs for the time being.
I have recently retired and now, with extra kids and grandbabies, we travel a lot to visit family. We have my Aubrey, a lawyer in Chicago, IL – my Zach, a regional manager for Hu Hot Mongolian Grills based in Missoula, MT; (Bob’s) Jenn and family in Bend, OR – and (Bob’s) Adam and family in Portland, OR. Between the two of us that’s family to visit with 6 grandkids ranging from 12 to newborn granddaughter who arrived in January 2017 (Chicago)! Spending time with them all is so special. We all know how quickly life rolls along!
We also love to travel for fun, camp, kayak (a tandem Hobie is easier for us!), ski (Purgatory), bike (simple rides), and we cook up a storm for friends and family! I am active with church and bible study through Bible Study Fellowship International, and I have hobbies of reading, sewing, watching tennis and football, Swedish weaving, and am starting to learn felting. Music is still a part of my life, and the years of band with Mr. Green were the best, however I rarely (make that “very rarely”) play my flute, but have learned to play the Native American flute, and still play the piano for pleasure. Someday I hope to tackle the harp! Bob and I prefer big band music, and a variety of jazz, classical, and a little country. "Music in the Mountains" in Durango each summer is fantastic!
So if your travels ever bring you through the southwest corner of Colorado, Durango is a beautiful place to visit. You are welcome to look us up! Hope to see my CHS friends soon, and please keep in touch!
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