Gail Hill Abernathy

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GAIL HILL ABERNETHY

Sounds important but…pretty normal.
1965 – 1966…attended Peace College in Raleigh
1966 – 1968…attended and graduated from Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, NC
1968 – 1999…taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades at Long Creek Elementary in Huntersville, NC
1977…married…1984…divorced
1978…earned MA in education from Appalachian State University
1979…birth of first daughter, Emily
1981…birth of second daughter, Allison
1999…retired from teaching.

Since my retirement I have done some traveling with friends. I have taken a few jobs tutoring children in small groups at a nearby middle school and this year at a nearby elementary school. I am currently working three days a week, five hours a day. I am loving it!!

I volunteer at a community theater…no performance, just work the box office. I love to play board games and card games with my teacher friends. We have pulled some all-nighters playing Rummicube. I am too old to be doing this, but what fun!

I am anxiously awaiting the birth of my first grandchild. My daughter Allison and her husband are expecting their first child in November.

I share my home with two cats left over from my daughters’ childhoods. The old girls are getting old. The gray cat and I have thyroid problems…she lost half her body weight…I did not!! I had to have surgery. The black cat has cancer…I do not share that disease with her. They are good girls and keep me company