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Sherry Tyler
Coyle stayed in the Quad Cities after graduation, and today, she
and her husband, Jim, of 13 years, live in Moline.
She has four
children and between Sherry and Jim, they have 26 grandchildren
and three great grandchildren. "I love my grandchildren," she
said.
Sherry is
having a wonderful retirement. She retired three years ago
after 20 years as a medical transcriptionist at Illini Hospital
in Silvis - about the same time as her twin brother, Bill, she
recalls. "I highly recommend it, and I love it," she said.
Sherry cannot
see her grandchildren often enough so she spends a lot time with
them. She is also very active in their church, the Silvis
Heights Baptist Church in Silvis, where her husband is a trustee
and she works with young children and does clerical work. "I
just finished teaching Vacation Bible School," she said.
Now that she
is no longer an eight to fiver, she has time for gardening,
reading, and traveling, and just being together with her husband
. "We have a good time," she said.
The couple
spends five months out of the year at their home in LaBelle,
Fla. "Out in the orange groves," she explained.
The pair have
traveled everywhere in the U.S. except for the northeast -
something they plan to remedy.
Sherry served as a consultant for a company in India to
evaluate medical units, and as a result, Sherry and Jim spent
six weeks in Bangor and New Dehli. "The people I worked with
were wonderful, and everyone wanted to be packed up in our
suitcase and come back with us," she said.
They were
chauffeured around the country although Sherry says the traffic
was chaotic at best. She says she was okay with it, but Jim had
other thoughts. "We only saw one stop sign the whole time, and
the guy drove right through it," she said.
She had many
friends, especially people from her church group at Memorial
Christian Church in Rock Island - Connie Welch, Pat Ruzicka,
Cynthia Hennessey, Judy Liljegren, Charley Broncatto and George
Pickett to name a few.
So far, she
has made it to three reunions. "It's wonderful to have happy
times to look back on," she said.
Sherry would
like to hear from you:
mrspepper@mchsi.com
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