I met Marta in 7th grade homeroom. Her aunt Barbara and my aunt Barbara were best friends in high school. Marta and I were friends all through junior high and high school. We both went to PCC for a while and lost touch. I moved back to SP from Carlsbad in 2011 to take care of my mother, who lived in the family home on Oak Street, jyst around the corner from Marta, living on Marengo. We reconnected, and I enjoyed being her friend once again. I can't relate any wild and crazy experiences we had: we were just boring kids, eating lunch together every day at school, talking on the phone in the evenings, trying to make sense of the world and the people in it. Highlights were new Beatle albums, the week's top 20 on KRLA, and movies. As we grew up, we disagreed on politics and religion, but that was okay. It sucks that she was taken too young, by cancer, the scurge of our times. She will not be able to be a grandmother to her young grandchildren. And the rest of her family and friends, will miss her forever.
Connie L Wardlow (1969)
I met Marta in 7th grade homeroom. Her aunt Barbara and my aunt Barbara were best friends in high school. Marta and I were friends all through junior high and high school. We both went to PCC for a while and lost touch. I moved back to SP from Carlsbad in 2011 to take care of my mother, who lived in the family home on Oak Street, jyst around the corner from Marta, living on Marengo. We reconnected, and I enjoyed being her friend once again.I can't relate any wild and crazy experiences we had: we were just boring kids, eating lunch together every day at school, talking on the phone in the evenings, trying to make sense of the world and the people in it. Highlights were new Beatle albums, the week's top 20 on KRLA, and movies.
As we grew up, we disagreed on politics and religion, but that was okay.
It sucks that she was taken too young, by cancer, the scurge of our times. She will not be able to be a grandmother to her young grandchildren. And the rest of her family and friends, will miss her forever.