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Nancy Freel Becker
1937 - 2009 |
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"We thought her an angel child, until we caught that wink in her eye.
Mixed Chorus. . .1,2 Basketball. . . 1,2,3,4 Mustang Review
Staff . . . . . . . . . . .3
Class Play . . . . . . 3. Declamation . . 1,3,4 Girls' Glee club.I,2,3 Band. . .. . . ...... . . I
Class Ofl1cer. . ... 2 Operetta . . .. . 1,2,3 Librarian . . .. 1,2,3 County Chorus. . 1 "D"Club
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July, 2005, 50th Anniversary High School Graduation, Nancy wrote:
Don and I enjoy life in a country home with a large yard (300 acres) about 50 miles north of Kansas City near Cameron, MO. We love the country and Don enjoys fishing and 4-wheeling. I enjoy antiquing as well as collecting Christmas ornaments. We have a cabin in Tincup, CO and spend part of our summers in the mountains. We also enjoy taking short trips to Iowa to visit family and friends in the Dallas Center and Des Moines area.
Don and I met while we both were attending Drake and taking a laboratory science course where he recognized my family name, Freel, on a lab drawer. He left me a note (You might say I caught him passing notes.) We married in 1957 and will celebrate 48 years of wedded bliss on September 8. We have three wonderful children: Rodney, Julie, and Cliff. Rodney is married to Charlotte and has four children: Kate, Jacque, Joshua, and AnnE. Cliff is married to Wendy and has five children: Jonathan, David, Kimberly, Elizabeth, and Rachel. Julie was a high school chemistry/physics teacher for ten years and is currently working on curriculum ideas. One of these ideas, a quilt, was recently published on the cover of “The Physics Teacher” magazine. We have nine grandchildren, and thanks to daughter Julie, funny friends galore.
After marrying Don I graduated from Iowa Methodist School of Nursing. We lived in Des Moines for a year before moving to Davenport where Don got his start in the fire sprinkler industry. In 1963 we moved to Florida where I worked the evening shift in a small hospital in Pinellas Park, Fl. A year later we returned to the Midwest and spent a year in Illinois before finally ending up in the Kansas City area where we lived for 35 years. From 1964-72 I was periodically employed working in pediatrics, obstetrics, and intensive care units in various hospitals. While raising my children, I also helped my husband, Don, build his fire sprinkler company, Midland Automatic Sprinkler Company, which we sold to Tyco International in 1999. I currently enjoy my children and grandchildren. Don is semi-retired and works with our youngest son, Cliff in Cliff’s new business related to the sprinkler industry.
My days at DCHS were not as numerous as some for I became a DCHS student in the spring of my sophomore year. I missed my friends and classmates at Van Meter HS and especially appreciated the smiles and encouragement from my new friends and classmates at DCHS which helped ease the pain of having to switch schools. I am especially grateful to Doc and Norma Jean Lister for taking me in and making me their fifth daughter when my folks moved to Des Moines shortly after I started my senior year at DCHS. Today I am extremely grateful and proud to be able to say that I am a member of the DCHS Class of 1955.
Other recollections include: basketball, Junior and Senior Banquet, our teachers (I loved them all) and my classmates. |
Nancy died June 13, 2009
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