Janet Gail Williamson

My brother and a friend were talking about Miss Williamson yesterday. She was our sixth-grade teacher at Powell Middle School in 1986. She had taught our entire sixth grade class sign language to several popular songs for a performance to area Elementary students as they transitioned to middle school. To this day, my friend and I still remember the sign language to two of those songs and were laughing as we discovered this. We talked about Miss Williamson's positive influence on my brother,...

I was cleaning out my office today and came across a business card from Janet for Bearstone Jewelry. I tried to look her up and discovered that she had passed. We weren't close but she did leave an indelible impression on me. My family and I (Brad, Matthew and Katie), were vacationing one year over Christmas in Sayulita and became friendly with her, her then husband and her sister Darleen. We had so much fun with them (including a great trip up the coast the San Francisco, Nayarit for over...