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Cathy Page Raphael

I attended Bridgewater College in VA for 2 years, taught second grade at Chesapeake Beach Elementary for one year (with a "provisional certificate" - they were obviously desperate). In summer 1963 I married Fred Middleton, Jr. of Solomons, MD (where I had worked summers at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory) - single father of 3 little children. Raised those children and moved to Greenville, NC, where I had one more in 1965: "Skipper". Moved back to the Chesapeake area when he was 3 weeks old - living in the Georgetown, MD/Chestertown area for many years. Husband had a yacht sales (Sailing Associates, Inc.) & I had a nautical gift shop on the Sassafras River. Raised dairy goats as a hobby & became 4H leader. Active in Mennonite church. Widowed in 1977. Spent next 7 years being a nanny, having a daycare & working in gift shop, and then at Washington College in library & Dean's office & being mom. My son graduated from St. Andrew's School in Middletown, DE & Washington College in Chestertown, MD. When he had graduated, I moved to Wilmington, DE to become an executive sec'y at a Mutual Fund company (more $). Later after that company closed (in a merger), I worked at the Univ of DE as a secretary in the biology dept. and also at New Bolton Center of Veterinary Medicine for the Univ of PA. Met my present husband, Ben, on a ski trip with the Wilmington Ski Club (& found Donna Fuchs there, too!) Now been married 32 years and retired (with "hobby" of being an antique/gift dealer in 3 antique malls).(fun!) We bred cocker spaniels for a while, but when we lost our last two - whom we miss immensely, we decided to retire from that. Ben is a native of Essen, Germany, born in 1929, and was a Holocaust refugee at the age of 9. He is a classical music enthusiast & excellent pianist. One highlight of the past 33 years is singing with a Univ of DE a cappella group (a la Faye Finley Shaw) and having the opportunity to sing with Beethoven's 9th at Carnegie Hall! From my Middleton stepchildren, we have 5 grandchildren; from my son we have 1; and from my Raphael stepchildren, we have 3 and total 5 great grandchildren. I LOVE genealogy and am still working on my degree in history, believe it or not. Plan to write a family genealogy book (from Mayflower to King Ranch & from Plantagenet kings of England to colonial Virginia. wow!) Was Recording Secretary of the Page Nelson Society of Virginia. I have done a lot of work on Ben's European genealogy as well. Wrote a book about my first dairy goat, "Tinkerbelle", to be published later. Have been in constant touch with Miss Fullerton, our biology teacher, since 1957, when she taught biology at B-CC and was my neighbor. In retirement, she lived in nearby Wilmington, and I had been in close contact with her until her death this past July. Back in 2005, with the help of her former students, we had a fabulous surprise 80th birthday party for her. Sadly, she had a stroke on 4/13 & died 3 months later. I sat with her as often as covid allowed & every day for her last month. Was with her when she went to heaven & spoke at her funeral. What a teacher & friend she was! Would love someday to move back to the Chestertown area. I am a country girl at heart. email: [email protected]
addendum 5/9/25: Beloved hubby died 3/15/25. Miss him terribly. Still have Miss Fullerton's 2 feral cats (had to promise to adopt them!). Live in same house in Newark, DE.

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