Sandi K. Robinson Wheatley
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From the May 25th 2014 50th Class Reunion Booklet Spouse: Seth Wheatley III Children: 1 daughter, Jeannie Hill Haddon and her husband, Michael Grandchildren: Drew-10 and Ella Haddon-8 I am a graduate of Ole Miss in Oxford, MS. I have been retired since 1995 from a career as a bookkeeper and accountant. Worked for public schools and retired as Comptroller for Mun Energy Agency of MS. Later worked part time for a local CPA and had a home business booking mystery shoppers and scheduling. The past couple of years I have seen some "old Folks" surgeries but am fully recovered now. Love retirement!
Hobbies are traveling--seems like I'm always in my little Honda Hybrid driving back and forth from Arkansas mountains escaping the MS. Delta. Grandchildren, community theater, genealogy, book club, and church/charity stuff take up the rest of my time. Also do photography & documentation for the Find-A-Grave website and am officer in our state & local TEA Party. Oh--and read true Crime books. I know lots of ways to hide a body.
1. Name and
city/state where you live
Sandi Robinson
Wheatley, Greenwood, Mississippi
2. Spouse's
name and where he/she was born or went to school
Seth Wheatley,
Greenwood, Mississippi native
3. How/where
did you meet your spouse
Seth & I married
in Nov. 2000. We're long-time friends from the local community
theater. In '97 we did a production here of "Mash" & got
together while working on that show.
4. Your
spouses' occupation
He's purchasing
agent/computer guy for the regional mental health facility.
5. Did you attend
college or special schooling - what study
Finally
graduated from Ole Miss in 1988! They graciously accepted
nearly all my English lit & drama hours from the 60's at Omaha U
& I completed about 7 additional yrs of classes at night,
summers, etc. My major field was Accounting but the sequence
of classes only allowed for a BusAdm degree.
6. Your
occupation before retirement
Worked 16 1/2 yrs
for Greenwood City Schools as a bookkeeper, then 8 1/2 yrs at
Municipal Energy Agency of Mississippi in Jackson, MS, as
Comptroller. I retired from municipal service in 1995. Since
then I've worked part-time for a CPA, traveled doing some
consulting, and run my own small home business for two years.
In 2006 I fully retired & now keep our 2-yr old granddaughter.
7. Favorite
place (city/state) where you have lived and why
I've lived in
Mississippi since '71 and love our state. Of course Decatur and
Omaha will always be high on my list of favorite spots. In the
late '60s I lived in Long Beach, CA, and married a man from
Greenwood, moving here when he got out of the Navy. We were also
stationed in San Diego and Newport News, VA, for a time.
However - I guess the place I actually loved the most was
Bremerton, WA. We lived there for six months - like all seasons
in WA they were rainy. The people were very like NE folks and
the woods and little city were a wonderland of wildlife and
great scenery. Seth has never seen that part of the country so
it's definitely on a list of places we plan to visit in the
future.
8. How many
children, if any
One daughter,
Jeannie. She's Operations Manager for a helicopter service &
married to a wonderful guy, Michael Haddon.
They live in rural
Carroll County with plenty of room for our wild grandchildren to
roam around.
9.
Grandchildren
After nearly 10 yrs
of marriage Jeannie & Michael had their 1st child in 2004 - they
now have two kids. Drew will be 5 in April. He's a little
fireball, very verbal, and nearly as smart-alec as I was. He's
starting T-ball & loves Thomas the Train. Ella will be 3 in
April. She acts like a princess, just batting her eyes &
expecting her "BeeBaw" (Seth) and "MeeMaw" (me) to wait on her
and produce cookies & tea & entertainment. Seth has no children
of his own & is younger than me, so he has really taken to being
a grandpa. They saw him on stage in a play for the first time a
couple months ago and were pretty impressed!
10. Special
hobbies
I'm still a theater
nut and very active in our community theater. But age has taken
a toll on the ability to learn lines so I mainly direct
productions now, including "Music Man" last year and "Noises
Off" coming up next spring. I've been quite surprised how
retirement agrees with me. I still sew and craft but mainly
chase the 2 yr old.
11. Any other
details you care to share
We enjoy traveling
and have been lucky enough to see quite a few parts of this
country. We vacation in Arkansas at Mountain View-Blanchard
Springs nearly every summer. This year we found ourselves over
Labor Day stuck in St. Cloud, MN, after brother-in-law's
wedding, with no train service back south due to hurricane
delays. We rented a car with Seth's 87 yr old father along &
drove back comparatively near to NE. I so wish we'd been able
to detour through Decatur and pass a day or two. For anyone
headed to the southeast, we're 1/2 way between Memphis &
Jackson, MS, just off I-55 & always glad to hear from people
from home. It's actually interesting country as Greenwood is the
absolute heart of the Mississippi delta. I've been working on
geneology recently and have a web site on GENI.com with
Busse & Watson families quite complete & would be glad to share
or swap info.
Not a day goes by I
don't think of something to be thankful for - including
my upbringing and education at Decatur. We really did have a
wonderful school, good teachers, and a great atmosphere to grow
up! About 5 yrs ago an uncle at Auburn NE passed away & I made
a very quick trip home. Decatur was so very different, but
still looked good to me. I just wish the school was still
viable & the economy better. Nothing can dim the memories
though.
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