Members of Your High School Class That Have Passed

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TeePee

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Yesterday a girl (woman now) passed away from my high school class. Someone from my class posted names of the ones that have passed since graduation in 1971. There were 77 people out of a graduation class of 402. That's a fifth of our class! It's sad to read about people you studied and grew up with during your formative years in life. It really makes you appreciate life even more when you are able to wake up each new morning.
 

I don't even live in the same country as my classmates, so I'm unlikely to hear anything about any of them... altho' way back when I was in my 40's I read the Quiet studious guy in my primary school class was now a grandfather of 5... I nearly fell down.... :eek:

...but in senior school I was in an all girls class.. and remember being in touch with one of my best friends at school.. through friends reunited about 25 years ago.. and the total opposite of me, she hadn't moved away, she had never married, no kids... she hadn't even moved out of her childhood home.. and was still in the same job she went to after leaving school.... we had nothing in common , so I stopped mailing her
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Something made me search the name of a kid I grew up with in the neighborhood. I used to walk to his house and hang out all day playing with his toys and climbing the trees he had in his yard. As we aged, we grew apart and never stayed in touch. But what came up in my google search was his obituary from 2021. He was 61 years old at the time of his death. But seeing his picture (as a man) brought back a feeling of myself I had long forgotten. It was cathartic to feel like my old forgotten self.

I don't regret that we were never in touch because the common ground we shared was simply playing as little kids. I never had the feeling that he would care one way or another if I didn't come around.
 
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hollydolly said:
I don't even live in the same country as my classmates, so I'm unlikely to hear anything about any of them... altho' way back when I was in my 40's I read the Quiet studious guy in my primary school class was now a grandfather of 5... I nearly fell down.... :eek:

...but in senior school I was in an all girls class.. and remember being in touch with one of my best friends at school.. through friends reunited about 25 years ago.. and the total opposite of me, she hadn't moved away, she had never married, no kids... she hadn't even moved out of her childhood home.. and was still in the same job she went to after leaving school.... we had nothing in common , so I stopped mailing her
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That's funny about the quiet studious guy in class. You never know how kids are going to turn out. Everyone thought I'd get married and have kids. I didn't get married until I was 66 and had no kids. Most of the wild kids in class settled down and had kids.
 
TeePee said:
That's funny about the quiet studious guy in class. You never know how kids are going to turn out. Everyone thought I'd get married and have kids. I didn't get married until I was 66 and had no kids. Most of the wild kids in class settled down and had kids.
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See for all I know..my friend could have been the same as you, and has now married since I last spoke to her.. I doubt it but it could have happened... the ironic thing about it was that she and her sister were the glam girls in our school.. they were the ones who were given everything by their parents.. latest fashions always...but she told me she'd never even been in a serious relationship with a guy

yes that classmate the studious one... anyone else..I wouldn't have thought anything different but he was just such a quiet studious boy and he was in some of my brothers' classes at senior school and he was still even then a quiet guy no girls..etc.. so to have grandchildren by the time in his 40's was just incredulous to me... :ROFLMAO:
 
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Something I learned the other day. The classes from my high school donā€™t have reunions past the 50th. Perhaps that is typical. Too many gone by that time. They (my class) were barely able to get 100 together for the 50th, and that was out of a class of 600. Lack of interest plus death takes a toll.
 
EmptyCup said:
Something I learned the other day. The classes from my high school donā€™t have reunions past the 50th. Perhaps that is typical. Too many gone by that time. They (my class) were barely able to get 100 together for the 50th, and that was out of a class of 600. Lack of interest plus death takes a toll.
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We're suppose to have a 55 year next year. I went to my 10 year reunion and things hadn't changed since high school. All of the cliques hung out together. I didn't go to my 50th and I don't plan on going to my 55th.
 
One girl I dated in high school passed away years ago. There was another girl - really beautiful and looked like a young Jackie Kennedy - I didn't date her - she didn't make it to age 30.

Not many years after graduation, I wasn't in touch with any of my class anymore and don't know how I could find out how many are still living. There were over 700 in my graduating class, so needless to say many are now gone.
 
Didn't keep in touch with more than one; didn't like most of them (the popular kids) back then so probably wouldn't like 'em now. From what I understand, most of those BMOCs (Big Men on Campus) became CEOs and corporate attorneys and most of the gals because the wives of CEOs and corp. attys, so I really wouldn't fit in with them, lol.
 
officerripley said:
Didn't keep in touch with more than one; didn't like most of them (the popular kids) back then so probably wouldn't like 'em now. From what I understand, most of those BMOCs (Big Men on Campus) became CEOs and corporate attorneys and most of the gals because the wives of CEOs and corp. attys, so I really wouldn't fit in with them, lol.
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When you get older, you realise how petty kids were in school. I was a wall flower. I lived out in the country and had no way to get to extracurricular school activies.I wasn't disliked but sure wasn't popular by any means.
 
About the 17 year mark I actually hooked up online with several high school buddies. It was nice, but besides old times we really had nothing in common and ran out of things to talk about and lost contact. Just a couple of years later my best friend from high school was flying into Denver with a two hour layover. I drove up from Colorado Springs and we had a nice visit, of course later we too lost contact.

I've known my current best friend for 41 years and we still talk on the phone several times a year. We've been able to meet up a dozen or so times even though we no longer live in the same state. We never run out of things to talk about ;)

I know quite a few of my graduation class of 160 has passed, but I never kept track.
 
I neglected to address the topic. Based on an ā€œin memoriamā€ slide show posted to Facebook - I would say approximately 15% of the class had passed away at the 50 year mark. Probably some they missed so perhaps a little higher than that. One was a friend who literally fell over dead from a massive coronary.
 

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