Where Are They Now?
From the October 12, 2006, issue of the Afton Star Enterprise:
Name: Gin...alias Virginia Mauer
Address: TX...hotter that H...Houston, Texas
Email: ginnycox68@att.net
Spouse: I gave him up a long time ago.
Children: Two...Corey M. Cox [Seattle, WA] and Amanda A. Cox [Vass, NC]. I have two beautiful granddaughers, Stella K. Cox [2 years] and Paige Daley Cox [2 months]. I'm waiting for the rest of the clan.
You parents' names and what they did/do: Dale and Leona Mauer, everyone knew them. My Dad built a telephone company. Dale and Leona were known by my classmates to be the most perceptible parents as to knowing when I was throwing a party in their absence from the house. [They came home early.] I especially remember the night Kathy Shay's cigarette laid smoldering in the cushion of a chair in our house...and we awoke to smoke in the house the next morning.
Your town and year you graduated from EU: Afton [the BIG town]...1964. I escaped, along with Bonnie Riepe, down the fire escape.
Your college or other education: Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. I was the only one graduating from there who did NOT become a teacher.
Your occupation: I'm a real REAL estate agent, Keller Williams Realty.
Growing up, you wanted to be a: Singer...inspired from the days of Mary Louise Petznick, and then the Honey Bees Quartet, on to College Choir at Maryville, on to 27 years of singing barbershop music with Sweet Adelines, Inc.
Favorite season: Spring...in Texas, when the wildflowers bloom.
One thing you absolutely have to do or see: I've been thinking of taking tap dancing.
World's greatest invention to date: I guess it was the TV...because I remember when families in Afton were getting their first TV's, and inviting other families over to watch with them. We shared.
Historical event you wished you had witnessed: I did witness, and will always remember...the day John F. Kennedy was shot, and we were in "Hoss" Nelson's class.
When someone asks what it was like where you grew up, what you tell him or her: Afton was truly a unique and wonderful place to grow up. You left your house on your bike in the morning and came home at night and your mother never had to worry or wonder if you were OK, because we were "safe" in Afton. Then when we were teen-agers, we were still safe...and I think you know what we all did then out there: i/e., cornfields, backroads, Chicken Inn, Skyline, back then.
People will be surprised to learn you: Haven't changed a bit. I'm talking about my personality.
Favorite music: Vocal music with Mary Louise Petznick, Union County Women's Chorus also with Mrs. P...piano music with Lena Huss, Creston Lutheran Church organist at age 12, going on to play for subsequent churches until 1999, and also singing in Women's Barbershop Choruses in Missouri, Louisiana and Texas for 27 years.
Last book read: Millionaire Real Estate Agent
Favorite TV shows: Survivor and CSI
Favorite movie/movies: I think it was the one I saw at 8th grade graduation with Mark Amos.
Your fondest East Union memory: To open my diploma after crossing the stage at graduation only to find a note from Veldon Deahl. Also singing with the Honey Bees Quartet [Holly Huss, Sherry Moon, Bonnie Riepe and myself].
Favorite breakfast ceral: How did this question get in here?
The most important thing you've learned in life: The value of lifelong friendships.
Your favorite EU teacher [s]: Mary Louise Petznick and Mrs. Norris [typing].
Your favorite place to go when you want to get away: Well, actually...Iowa.
Your hobbies: Still playing [piano] and listening to music, also wine tasting [and drinking].
How often you visit you home town: 6 or 7 times yearly.
You wish you could be more: Worldly...but I'm not.
You wish others could be more: Unworldly