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Note: r I feel grateful and proud and happy to have been born into the Hutchinson-Stone union.
"The Lake" was a very special part of my life. I couldn't imagine, in my childhood, a better place in the whole world. I seldom thought of it by name -- just "The Lake" -- so that even now I have to think twice about how to spell "Stuart." In my childhood fantasies whenever I thought about a cottage, it would be planned just like the Westley place with a main room and fireplace, a porch on two sides, and bedrooms all opening into the main room -- perfect!
I met Claude while we were both employed as Medical Technologists in the Veterans Administration Hospital, Iron Mountain, Michigan. We continued to live in Iron Mountain after our marriage in 1954 until we moved to Muskegon Heights, Michigan in 1957. Claude has been a teacher in the biology Department of Muskegon Community College for the past 23 years. I operate a small greenhouse business, a seasonal business where I raise and sell annual plants, flowers and vegetables.
We spend our summers in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan at our cottage on Gibson Lake in Iron County. My children will have special memories of their Gibson Lake in Upper Michigan, but will remember good times and reunions and getting-acquainted with kin at Stuart Lake.
Note: Jean relates the following: Though I have no choice in the matte
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