ABOUT ME

My Name is Barbara and I was raised in a small Coal Camp in Pageton, West Virginia, one of many small Coal Camps in Mc Dowell County.  My Parents were Steve and Pauline Sims.  I went to Elementary school at Pageton, and Jr. High at Anawalt, and then to Gary for High School and graduated with the class of 57.

I left home after graduating in 1957 and went to Norfolk, VA got married and left W.VA behind  but not in my heart.  I have lived in all four corners of the US and Alaska, Panama Canal Zone, & Udhailiyah, Saudia Arabia.                            

Sometimes I feel like the Hank Snow song, "I've Been Everywhere Man"  In my 57 Yearbook, They put beside my Senior picture "This little Kitty plans to move to a big city."  Well I did move to several big cites however, there's no place like home,  I try to get home at least once a year and love going  down those country roads taking me home, it was the best feeling in the world.  Memories all come flooding back and I still try to go home once or twice a year.  I live in Sebring, FL now. 

 There's no place that I know of as beautiful as our West Virginia Mountains  and Hills as our State song goes,  If or sea or land I roam still I think of happy homes and our friends among those West Virginia Hills.  I just wanted you to know something about the way I feel about our beautiful State of West Virginia, and  I'm especially proud to be a Gary Coaldigger.            

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