Jacklyn Fox Abney

I moved to Baldwin Park in 1950. I think I went to Heath Elementary. I remember Landis and BPHS very well. My family lived on Sierra Madre St., the Barber family lived on one side and the Quimby family on the other. We could see Arrowhead Dam from our front yard.

I remember many of the girls and guys, Jill Freburg, Janice DiLazzaro, Bonnie Bordenaro. Jill’s mother was our Girl Scout leader. At Landis, I was friendly with Tawnya Biggs, Cheryl Herne, Julie Veres, Julie Brown, Pam Kelso. At BPHS, I ran around with several groups, but because of the split lunch I ate with Trudy Sumpter most of the time.

My brother, Jim Fox, graduated 1959, played baseball and football. His friends were Warren Easely, Jay Maurer, and all the jocks. When he graduated he had a full baseball scholarship to Baylor University in Waco, TX.

My dad was in the construction business, which was dying in California but booming in Louisiana, so we moved to Bossier City in September 1959.

I graduated from Bossier High in May 1961 and started Beauty College that summer. Graduated a year later, passed my state boards, obtained my license and got a job in a great salon.

The space program was getting started and Nasa built a massive facility in New Orleans, so my folks moved to Slidell, LA, a suburb of New Orleans. I moved there a few years later. I owned a large salon with twelve employees, tanning beds, etc. for 20 years, but have scaled way down to a salon in my home.

I have two sons, Ken, 37, a tug boat captain, and Jack, 27, a professional golfer. I've been divorced 14 years.

My interests are my 4year old granddaughter, gardening, church and golf, not necessarily in that order.

I hope to attend the reunion in September with my brother, Jim.