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Profile of Juanita Pratt Schiele

My family moved to Bynum when I was 3 1/2.

 

Parents:  Robert and Corine Pratt

 

Siblings: 

·         Robert W.  (Buddy)

·         Gladys

·         Patsy (Pat)

·         Shirley (years later)

 

First Friends:  Ronald and Donald Burney (they wanted to join the Brownies with me but Miss Clingo said they would have to join the Cub Scouts

·         Joyce Guthrie

·         Pam Salmon

·         To many to name

 

Favorite Past times:  Putting on shows, (the garbage racks as our stage), playing in the coal bins, hop scotch, skating, hide and seek.

 

Skip forward a few years:  We moved to Anniston when I was in the 10th grade.  I hated it.  We moved back to Bynum the next year.  Where I stayed until 1964 then I moved to Huntsville and lived with Joe and Gertrude Powell until I got a job and an apartment.

 

In 1965 I married. My husband went to Nam, when he came back in 1966 we moved to Ga. from there to St Louis.  In 1971 I divorced and in 1972 I moved to Anniston.  I stayed there until I moved to Montgomery in August of 1985.

 

I work for the State of Alabama

 

My plans are to move back to the Anniston area when I retire.

 

I feel so blessed to have lived when I did and where I did as a child and teen.

 

I did not realize having the same friends your whole life was so unique but I have also learned that it is a blessing.

 

I enjoy locating old friends and getting reacquainted.  I have tracked down a lot of Bynum folk over the years.   

 

One of the better things that has happened to me by staying in touch with old friends is that I opened my house to Joe and Gertrude Powell's Grandson 41 years after the time I stayed with them in Huntsville.  He came to Montgomery to work in a law office for 6 weeks while he was in Law School.

 

 

Juanita



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