Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

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Special Treat – Paula Booher

July 24, 2006

"So Will We Or Won't We?"

                                                    by

                                             Paula Booher

Thirty years have come and gone!  Wow, it's hard to believe.  Just saying it takes me aback a bit.  Can it possibly be so?  Where did the time disappear to and how did I possibly live those years without Even noticing them Go by so quickly?  One day I was struggling to get through High School and daydreaming of What I would Do "After" I got Out of those hallowed halls and now I'm so Far from those days and the smells of that cafeteria and sounds of the basketball games.  Where has the time flown?  I went to sleep one night and here I am thirty years later with Grown children of my own.  Impossible...

If not for albums full of pictures tracking the events I'd probly think I'd dreamed it all up.  It's true.  The mirror does not lie.  I'm Not the teenager that graduated from Morgan Co-R1 in 1976 from Stover, Missouri with 3 foot of blonde hair and a much nicer figure.  Nope!  Three children later and four marriages...three of them to one man and one to the present, will put some age on a person...lol.  I'm still a natural blonde just a little darker than when I started out.  That's due to my family genes on my Dads' side of the family and has little to do with me.  My mothers' side were mostly brunettes.  Both sides were known for not showing much grey so we children were blessed in that department.  My sister is still Very blonde to this day and she's only 14 months younger than myself.

In school we were known as "The Roe girls", our maiden name.  Paula, Pauline, and Paul.  My sister and brother are twins and I was supposed to be a boy.  The family wanted to have the name Paul Dean Roe after our uncle who had died at 22 and when I was Not a boy, (I've told this story before...(but for those who Don't know)...I got named creatively then next time they got their boy and they needed a twin name to match my brother and my sister was named Pauline Jean to match Paul Dean...I'm Paula Deann.  Some mistake us for triplets on paper.  We don't resemble eachother that much in person.  Besides all being towheads as children even our personalities didn't match up as children either.  We're all quite different.  I tend to be bossy,(stems from our mother putting me in charge at such an early age I would suppose), my sister is meeker<( she was Always very timid and shy), and our brother was always in trouble for one thing or another,(being the only male in a house full of females Who knows why he was So roudy!...our parents divorced early on and our mother worked ALOT).

back to the point of This story...

I'm planning our classes' 30 year reunion or I'm in the process of it I should say.  I have several different ideas of How to Do this because time is of the essence since it is late in the year and it really should have Already been Done and Over With!  The problem is No one seems to be interested in Doing anything about it and I was getting anxious about it so I inquired and I was Right!  Seems no one Is doing Anything and if "I" don't perhaps No one Will!

While in the shower this morning it dawned on me that I'm involved with one of the greatest writing groups I could Ever hope to be involved in and I Am a Writer.  Why Not use the skills that God gave me and put them to Good Use to help my cause here?  Duh!  I need to get the Word out ASAP to those classmates involved that we Are having a Class Reunion this year and now due to the Fact that Stover, Missouri is now on the map due to the World Series Champions putting Stover, MO on the map last year I could also enlist the help of the  media somehow with the help of the powers that be out there somehow.  I was in the media for a time as a local DJ here in Springfield, MO, from which Paul Crouch hails from, (president of TBN, only the largest Christian Ministry in the whole entire world and whom I tithe to each and Every month Faithfully!). and somehow there has to be "A Way", by the Grace of the God that I Believe In with my Whole Heart to get this Done...In Jesus Name Amen!

It is by no coincidence that I am here at this particular moment with this Working computer writing this story to whomever is reading this story and God is laying a burden for that particular persons heart for me on your heart to Do Something no matter how small or insignificant it may seem, it counts.  It may seem trite yet Do It!  Whatever "IT" is.  No matter what...even if "it" is just telling someone else about this, they could be the 'key' to whatever else happens down the line.  God speaks you just have to listen to that still small voice inside of you and obey it.  That's how things get done in Gods Kingdom.  Networking angels Get Things done in the same way on earth as is done in heaven...by communicating to eachother the needs of the people. And there Shall be feasting and dancing and singing in the streets!

The needs are as follows in this particular situation:

***A  dinner at "The Extra Point bar and resturant plus a 70's music street dance for the class of '76 for Our 30 year class reunion is what is planned.  The people who graduated in the class are as follows and need to be contacted immediately! & contact me so we can set this up ASAP are:

The potential date is set within the next 6 weeks depending on how Soon we can contact as many people as possible.  It'll be on a Saturday evening in Stover of course on Main street as mentioned above.

These addresses and phone numbers are from the 25th class reunion that I had gathered.  Not all these classmates were in attendance nor did they respond and validate these addresses.  I have no way of verifying their correctness at this time.  All help you can contribute is much appreciated.  Any suggestions are also appreciated to finding these people at little or no cost as I'm on a fixed income from disability.  Thank you Very much!

Penny (Boeshen) Merritt, P.O. Box 143,Cole Camp postmaster,Cole Camp, MO 65325

Rick Brandt, last known address: 5 Roan Lane, St. Louis, MO 63124

Cheryl (Burke) Wolfe, Holts Summit, MO 65043 may be divorced now?

Rhonda (Marriott) Coslet, 1014 S. Grant, Marshall, MO 65340

Kenny Dale, 15863 Hwy N, Box 3484, Stover, MO 65078

Doug Derks, 840 Lazy Days, Lake Ozark, MO 65049

Dennis Hall, 25931 Lilac Rd., Sedalia, MO 65301-1617

Charlotte (Hughes) Enddley, 319 N. Kings Hwy., Nash, TX 75569

Randy Fischer & Billie (Williams) Fischer,13242 Prairie Lick Rd., Booneville, MO  65233 ph. 816-882-6469...both were in class...I am pretty sure they Have moved since last reunion.  Ruth and Lee Williams of Stover are Billie's parents,(Lee has passed but Ruth Williams is still with us.  She runs a quilt shop in Stover with daughter Lora).

Annette (Franklin) Dumas, 14 Rockingham Drive, Columbia, MO 65203 ph. 573-446-2024

Alan Franklin,(twin to Annette),1804 SW Crystal Creek Place, Blue Springs, MO 64015

Debra (Watring) Helmig,422 Butterfield Stage Road, Otterville, MO 65348-2404

Kurt Hagedorn, 2424 South East 5th Street, Lees Summit, MO 64063

My Music TEACHER- Doris Stevens P.O. Box 143, Tipton, MO 65081-0143 very important***

This woman mentored me personally and I attribute Many of my successes in life to her personal love and devotion.  She gave me my VOICE in So many ways! Not Only in music.

Venus (Kurtz) Cochran, probly not correct, I heard she divorced...but it's the last known address I have...95 Bishop Dr., Eldon, MO 65026  ph. 573-392-1738

Patricia (Braden) Himes, 28664 Rager Rd., Sedalia, MO 65301

Paul Lemler, 1408 S. Sneed, Sedalia, MO 65301

Wayne Maness, Route 1, Box 38, Syracuse, MO 65354-9705 ph.816-298-3327

Debbie (Metcher) Kelley, Box 51, Holts Summit, MO 65043

Linda (Oeheke) Metcher, P.O. Box 161, Stover, MO 65078

Terry Miller, Rt. 4, Box 4156, Gravois Mills, MO 65037, ph. 660-829-3765

Ronnie Newman  Rt.3, Box 31A, Cole Camp, MO 65325

Danny Nicholson, R.R. 2, Box 58A-1, Clark, MO 65243 ph. 573-641-5166

Anthony Nolting, 9701 North Lydia, Kansas City, MO 64155 ph.816-734-8204

Gary Nolting, 10741 Hwy. BB, Versailes, MO 65084 ph. 573-377-4487, 573-377-2807 

Russell Plain, Rt. 1, Box 64, Cole Camp, MO 65325

Tony Parrish, 9676 Webb Rd., Versailes, MO 65084

Brenda (Reusch) Scherlinger, R.R. 1, Box 43A, Bosworth, MO 64623

Loren Robinson, 1308 C, E. 123rd Terrace, Olathe, KS 66061 ph..913-764-5177

Shelley (Siegel) Buskirk, 614 10th St., Santa Montica, CA 90402 ph. 310-394-5027

Ron Silvey, 3036 W. 17th, Joplin, MO 64801

Tim Simmons, 3718 F. Rd., Otoe, NE 68417

Becky (Simmons) Hildreth, 21200 Hwy. MM, Versailes, MO 65084 ph. 573-378-5132

Virgil Smith, Box 321, Stover, MO 65078

Elvira (Schlomer) Swafford, 1609 E. Bingham, Ozark, MO 65721

Bryan Sizer, Rt. 2, Box 190, Stover, MO 65078 ph. 573-377-4836

Alan Taylor, 2433 Marigold, Witchita, KS 67204 ph.316-832-0817

Mildred (Twenter), Harmon, Sunset Village # 48. Rt. 3, Sedalia, MO 65301 ph. 816-826-1581

Jenny (Jett) VanVleck, P.O. Box 143, Stover, MO 65078 ph. 573-377-4839

Karen (Weber) Burr, 1112 Wildflower Lane, St. Charles, MO 63304

Diane (Weems) Earl, 2730 W. Chicago, Springfield, MO 65809 417-266-3081

David White, 28 Scrivner Rd., Eldon, MO 65026 ph. 573-392-3406

Jim Witte, P.O. Box 387, Stover, MO 65078 ph. 573-377-4470

I have no addresses or potential married names for the following classmates:

Dennis Brewer

Dennis Hall

Mary Roseann Huntsinger

Kathy Reimund

My information for these people to contact me is wrappednword@yahoo.com or

Paula (Roe) Booher

1543 S. Pickwick

Springfield, MO 65804

417-368-2449 home phone

417-343-2811 cell phone