Heidi, my sweet Heidi, finally came back after convalescing from another surgery! This time on her left shoulder. She was gone for three months and we really missed her. It’s great to see her smiling face again.
Heidi has been quilting since the early 80s beginning with Linda Cumming. After one year she joined Kathy’s class. She began quilting as a way to calm down from her high-pressure job working in the Emergency Department and CCU at Alameda Hospital. Her last 15 years, of her 30 year career, she was the evening supervisor. She had her 40th reunion from Samuel Merritt Nursing School. God bless the nurses.
Her dear husband, Gary, was a laboratory technologist at Summit Hospital. They met when Heidi was in nursing school. They have two children – boy and girl – and two little girls for the happy grandparents. These babies are the light of her life.
When the Tuesday night class at San Lorenzo Adult School ended, she joined us at Pieced Together Quilters. Now we have her all to ourselves.
Heidi loves all hand work, knitting, crocheting and embroidery, but socializing with her quilting sisters is her greatest joy. She loves to go on quilting tours especially New England. One was an Amish Tour and the other a Fall Foliage Tour. There is a group of six girls who set off to New England to set the world on fire.
A little know fact is Heidi was born in Waltham Massachusetts as her father was in the Air Force. They traveled all over. It madeHeidi more gregarious as many people would be shy, she made friends quickly. Being in the military brought people closer together - we were all one family she said. Ethnicity was never even considered. She was shocked when she first experienced racisms. Heidi is one of my special friends and I’m thrilled to have her back in group and on the mend.
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