Edie Beardsley Dieterle
During my high school days I was quiet and did not get to know many of my classmates. I was a transplant from Queens and started 9th grade in Toaz. After graduation, I went to work for the telephone company in downtown Huntington.
Well, after working a short time and getting out in the real world, I kind of found myself and for the next 5 years had a real good time socializing . . . Then I met Carl Dieterle (Class of 57). He had just got out of the Navy and found out his girlfriend was cheating on him, so he was an easy pick-up, (that’s what happens when you dance with an older woman). We were married within the year (61) and still together; it gets better all the time.
This union produced 2 children; Debbie and Carl. Love them both. We did have fun during these many years. We settled in Kings Park. Carl worked for MaBell and I went to work for the Kings Park State Hospital as a secretary for 3 psychiatrists (real interesting). We did a lot of camping, from Canada to Florida. We also built a home just north of Lexington, VA, as a vacation home. It was kind of fun planning and building it ourselves. We would be mapping out the location of the house in the middle of 20 acres and have wild turkeys strut on by or we would stand still as a bear would come real close. Well, 20 years went by in a flash and then it was time to retire.
We moved to Florida to enjoy retired life. Then, as life has its twist and turns, my daughter Debbie got a divorce. She and our 4 grandchildren, then ages 2 though 8, moved in with us. Carl went back to work to help support them and I am back to parenting. I help out at home with all the cooking and housework and volunteer at the school as a dividend, help with scouts, homework and etc. My days are never boring. The phone rings off the wall, who’s at the back door, while the bell is ringing at the front door. Do you remember the TV show Cheers, when Norm entered the bar and everyone shouted Hey Norm! Well when I enter the classroom all the kids yell, Hey Grandma. That is where I am today. Ain’t life grand.
