Barbara Walton Davis
755 West 500 South
Payson, UT 84651
801-465-4036
Work 801-377-5780
It’s hard to believe that our 50th reunion is right around the corner. I’m especially glad that you are helping those on the committee to get things started. I’ve helped with several reunions the last few years. Living in Payson can get you into trouble. Good luck!
After graduation, as you all know, I followed Doug (a USAF career man) for the next 21 years to Japan, the Philippines, London, England and places all over the United States. I took my nine children all over the world by train, by plane and by boat (21 days aboard the USS Sultan between Hawaii and the mainland. Ten of those years were overseas in different remote places. It was a wonderful experience and one I am glad that I did not miss.
My husband retired in 1968 and we built a 6 bedroom house in Payson, a steady place to raise all these children (six girls, three boys). In 1989 Doug filed for divorce. So, at 50 I went back to college for a degree. Only two children were left home at this time. My first job was with the hospital (Utah Valley Regional Center) in Provo. I worked in Administration as a Secretary for eight years. It was a great experience and I loved my job. At 63, I made a career change. I’ve been working at the Federal Building in Provo for four years now and have become quite the expert about the Unita National Forest. I will turn 67 in July and I hope and need to keep working. People keep asking me when I will retire and I keep telling them I won’t.
For fun, I do genealogy (yes, I stayed active in the LDS church, thank goodness that was one time when my good sense took over), go bumming with my six daughters, see all the plays and movies that are around, read books (even Harry Potter grabbed my attention), travel when I can. Lucky for me, I had seen lots of countries before the divorce.
I live alone in a duplex in Payson with my orange cat Jazz. No, I am not lonely. Yes my life is fulfilling. I have wonderful memories of my life and so many wonderful memories of my high school classmates. I have been to all but one of our class get togethers and I can’t believe how old you all are looking. Ha!!! Every Onion Days, I scan the faces for those who might be there. I always see and hug Robert Huber, John Peters, Kay Mendenhall and Diane Montague (now remarried, after the death of her husband), and now my friend Barbara Bates Rose has moved back to Salt Lake City. Every year the faces are scarcer. Onion Days participants can always find me there on the top of the north hill watching the good old band concert. I’ve traveled long and far enough to find out Payson is a nice place, in spite of the roads.
Thanks for helping out with this reunion, I am so excited to see all of you again.
TONS OF LOVE TO ALL!!!!
Barbara Jean Walton Davis
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