First Name Twylah

Maiden Name Seguine

Address 302 Crescent Rd

City Beckley

State WV

Zip Code 25801

Hm Phone 304 255 0392

Email tseguine@msn.com

I DO authorize sharing all of this information on the Class of 1961 Web Site.

Q1 What are some of your positive and some of your negative experiences with modern technology?

I enjoy scanning and repairing old family photos. I also find it easier to keep up with family and friends. The internet also makes genealogy easier and faster to do. I have found relatives that I didn't know that I correspond regularly with now.

Spell Check, wonderful invention!

Don't care much for cell phones; I get frustrated with texting, etc. I hate it when I have to ask my grand-daughter for the second or third time why the computer is giving me some cryptic message and what do I do now? Things seem to be going along fine then while doing something I've done a hundred times and the computer won't co-operate. Probably operator error, but I blame it on some evil plot to drive me crazy!

Q2 What are some of your most memorable experiences?

My first day of school, I had to be literally drug up the steps of the old Garfield school, kicking and screaming all the way, I was so scared!

The first time I held each of my three daughters (Kristine, Francine, and Michelle) in my arms and years later seeing each of my six grandchildren being born. My grandchildren are Katie (27), Charles (27), Sam (26), Emily (23), Jesse (22), and Becca (she passed away at the age of 2 from Leukemia). Those were indescribable moments.

Finding out that I had two younger brothers and an older brother; meeting my bio-father's family for the first time. Those were WOW times. Meeting the other half of your family in your mid 50s is really interesting!

Q3 What fun activities/hobbies, etc. do you participate in?

I enjoy quilting, genealogy, painting with watercolors and acrylics, and gardening.

Q4 What are some of the major changes in your life?

I divorced after 30 years of marriage to Julian Huerta.

I moved to West Virginia in 1999 to be near my youngest daughter, Michelle, and granddaughter, Emily. Here the mountains are green and rolling.

In December of 2009 I was diagnosed with Fallopian Tube Cancer and began intensive chemo treatments. These treatments caused me to lose my hair. After the initial chemo treatments, my hair grew back curly and stylish! After a few months of remission, the cancer came back in January of 2011. During this round of chemo treatments my hair has only thinned, but I am hoping it comes back in red and even curlier!

Personal narrative 2011 I was born in Cheyenne, WY and my Grandfather chose my name, Twylah. When I was about 2 years old, I was adopted by my grandparents, Frank and Lillian Seguine and we moved to Loveland, CO. My parents operated the Colorado Nursery there. Some of my earliest memories were of sitting on the well of the potting bench playing in the dirt. That was where I learned to love growing plants and gardening.

I eventually went to each of the three elementary schools that were in Loveland: Garfield, Washington, and Lincoln. I remember my first day of Kindergarten at the old Garfield School. My mother had to drag me up those old stone as I kicked and screamed, protesting all the way. I was a shy kid and scared to death. I have now learned to speak up, maybe too much, as I enjoy talking to strangers and getting to know people of all sorts.

My dad, Frank, died in 1951 and my mother eventually married Douglas Dorsey. We lived in Phoenix, AZ, Bellflower, CA, Westminster, CO, and Tucson, AZ. We moved back to Loveland in 1958 where I stayed until graduation in 1961. I could hardly wait to get out of that “small town” and move to a big city. Then I met and married Julian Huerta in ‘61 and moved to Berthoud the same year. Yeah, good plans don’t always work out!

Julian and I had three wonderful daughters: Kristine in 1963, Francine in ‘64, and Michelle in ‘67. We were married for thirty years before we divorced; they had said that it wouldn’t last. Nobody counted on my slow learning curve. Sadly, Julian passed away in June of this year.

As a bonus for having children, I am a proud grandmother of six grandchildren. Kris’ children are Katherine Peterson (married to Mica Peterson), Samuel Hand, and Jesse Hand (both Sam and Jess have served in the Marine Corps), and Rebecca Hand who died of Leukemia at the age of three. Fran has a son, Charles Huerta. Charles lives in Oklahoma and works in a steel plant. Michelle has a daughter, Emily Huerta-Roe. Emily graduated from college this year Suma Cum Laude. She plans to be a teacher. Both my children and grandchildren are blessings to me.

I worked for Storage Tech/Quantum for 16 years in Louisville. Someone in China is now doing my job. I moved to Beckley West Virginia in 1999 to be near my daughter Michelle. I miss Colorado, but enjoy the greenness of WV. There are so many wild flowers and trees here! I love it. I do have to chuckle when they talk of the mountains here, why a few are 3,000 feet high!

My favorite things to do are gardening, piecing quilts, and painting with watercolors and acrylics.

I was diagnosed with fallopian cancer in December of ‘09. After surgery and an intense course of chemo-therapy, the cancer was in remission. That lasted only a few months now the cancer returned, along with the chemo treatments. The first course of chemo took my hair, but it grew back curly. With the new rounds of chemo it is just thinning out. I would rather have the bald look rather than the thin look because; they say I have a nicely shaped head!