St. Mary's High School - David City, Nebraska

Mailing Address
6919 Morningside Drive 
Sugar Land, TX  77479-6037

Phone Number:
281-343-9991

Email Address:
rmcjmc@comcast.net

Marital Status:
Married, June 23, 1962 

Name of Spouse:
Max Coufal

Kids Names and Ages:
Deborah Jean Kaspar – 41 
Leslie Ann Corrigan – 40 
Tammy Sue Lee - 36

Grandkids Names and Ages:
Nicole Kaspar – 13
Christopher Corrigan – 5 
Brandon Lee – 4 
Zachary Lee – 20 Months 
 

Hobbies:
Love to travel, played a lot of tennis, love to walk and ride my bike, 
hike when I can and spend as much time with grandkids as possible. 

Education:
High School, vocational/technical/professional school
Secretarial Degree - Lincoln School of Commerce, Lincoln, Nebraska 

Occupation, Company:
Secretarial Temp,  Fluor Daniel Engineering Company, sitting in for secretaries who are on vacation,
sick leave, taking classes, etc. 14 years 

Favorite St. Mary's Memories:
The fun we had riding the bus to games, cheerleading, singing in the choir, slumber parties,
carpools to and from school from Bruno with the Roh family, JoAnn Riha, throwing snowballs on the
schoolground and having to write pages of "I will not throw snowballs on the schoolground", over and over.
Dancing at the bakery after games, cruising DC on Sunday afternoons, talking endless hours on the
phone about our favorite guys and the close friendships we made during those years at St. Mary's.


What I have been doing since High School:
I worked in Lincoln for 2 years while attending Lincoln School of Commerce.  Max was attending school in 
Austin, TX, so I moved down there to be close while he finished college at the University of Texas.
I roomed with a gal (Leonarda Mireles) from Brownsville at the YWCA for a couple of months until I
found work.  I learned the fine art of eating jalapenos like pickles living with her and about the
Mexican heritage I knew nothing about.  She was attending UT also getting her teaching degree.
I found a job with the State of Texas Vocational Rehabilitation office in a secretarial pool for 1 year
and then worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Austin for another year. Max graduated with
a math degree from UT in May and we married at the end of June, 1962 in Bruno, NE.  We came down to
Houston to look for jobs and stayed with his brother’s family for one month.  Max found a job with
Humble Oil Company, now Exxon, as a computer programmer.  I found a secretarial job at a pipe fabricating
company, L. B. Foster.  I worked there almost a year before our first daughter, Deborah, was born the
following June. We moved into our first house shortly after in the Sharpstown area of Houston, SW, of downtown.
I became a stay-at-home Mom until all of our kids went off to college and got married.  Leslie was born
October 1, 1964 and Tammy was born December 16, 1968.  I was very active in our parish, St. Francis de Sales
and at the schools the girls attended.  All graduated from St. Agnes High School.  Debbie got a Teacher of
Young Children degree at Stephen F. Austin University in East Texas.  In fact, she and her daughter, Nicole,
and husband, Danny, have lived there for the last 3 years where Danny is the head coach of the SFA’s basketball team.
Leslie is an office manager for her husband, Mike’s, flooring business, active in her church with the Gabriel’s
Project (helping unwed mother’s get on their feet) after they have decided not to have abortions.  Their son,
Christopher, plays soccer and she is usually the team Mom.  Tammy and her husband, Todd, have two boys,
Brandon & Zachary, and the family is in the fight of their lives to help Zachary, age 1-1/2 put a Wilm’s
tumor cancer of the kidney into remission.  This was discovered in June, which quickly brought surgery with
removal of the tumor and kidney.  He has had 6 radiations and numerous chemos.  They weren’t able to put
Brandon back into mother’s day out so he would not pick up other classmates colds, flu, germs, etc. as Zachary
is immune compromised while in chemo.  To look at him you would never know he has this disease, but with God’s
help and everyone’s prayers, we have a good prognosis.  So this keeps Max and I quite busy helping when Zach
is in the hospital, getting treatments, or just helping Tammy/Todd so they can get some away time.
Thirteen years ago we moved to the Greatwood Subdivision about 15 miles SW from our Sharpstown home.
We love our street and the friendships we have made here.  We keep in touch with many of our friends we
had while our kids were growing up and once a month we (the Ladybugs) lunch and get caught up on news about
our families. Our Greatwood group, (the Flamingos) do the same.  My Mom lived in an assisted living facility
just a couple of blocks from our house for 3 years before she passed away last December at the age of 89.
We also helped care for Max’s 102 year old aunt for 3-1/2 years before she passed a year ago July, so we have
been able to take a few more trips now that we aren’t caretakers right now.  We’ve been to Disneyworld, Yosemite,
Niagara Falls, Acadia National Park in Maine, Park City, Utah with hopes to drive to Alaska in 2006 and make the
islands of Hawaii before our health starts to crumble & fall apart.  
Note from Jan:
Max & I are retired; thus the long stay in Colorado.  We had been caretaking Max’s 102-year-old aunt for 3 years
down here in Houston and then we moved my Mom down during this same time as her health
was declining also.  We lost both of them in 2003.  In June of 2004, our youngest grandson,
Zachary, was diagnosed with Wilms Tumor, a cancer of the kidney.  He was just 1-1/2 at that time.
So he had his kidney removed along with a grapefruit sized tumor very quickly after his diagnosis.
We spent nine months of agony and fear watching this process which required
radiation (4) and 8 months of chemo.  He tolerated all of this treatment quite well;
lost some of his hair, but now after 6 months and having 2 chest X-rays and ultrasounds,
he has had clear scans.  For all of you that prayed for him, we are deeply thankful
and deeply touched.  We thank God each and every day for his health. 
We welcome the opportunity to help you and yours in prayer when you need it also.
 
We spent 19 days in Hawaii in May & June which we thoroughly enjoyed; what a beautiful paradise; 
can almost envision it to be like heaven someday.  We are hoping to take a long trip
and visit Alaska next year; trying to get in all we can before we start crumbling ourselves.  
 
Thanks again for those that keep in touch with me by email.  I love hearing from you about
your families and activities. Hopefully, we can make the next reunion; so until we meet again.
God Love & Bless each and every one of you.  

How did you find out about this website:
My classmate, Anita (Rolenc) Reidz
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Current picture of our four grandkids.  Nicole is a freshman this year, 
Chris will be 6 and Brandon will be 5 in October.  Zachary will be 3 in January.