Mary J. Spencer Stephens

After graduating from high school, I went to MSCW and graduated from there in 1962. I taught first grade in Natchez for a year, got married to Bill Stephens…class of ‘57...and then taught second grade in St. Gabriel, LA while Bill finished up his graduate program at LSU. We moved to Gulfport, MS and lived there for four years during which time we had three sons, William, David and John, before I was 26. Then we moved to the Oklahoma City area where we’ve lived since 1967. We now live in Edmond, Oklahoma. We have four grandchildren…William, Sarah, Spencer and Adam, age 9 to 15. Bill is traveling and is gone three days a week. I keep busy writing emails to friends…many of them are friends from high school, gardening and walking. I like to walk late at night and alone…am doing 5 ½ miles a night. I have enjoyed reading all the biographies coming in. So many people have gone on to get such good education and have had such successful lives. My fellow Marion Parkers like Richard Brown and Joe Burnett and lots of others…I am impressed but not surprised.