Hazel is my 1st cousin. It was with great sadness that I heard of her passing. She gave me encouragement to go to grad school and I did. She was a fantastic lady and so accomplished. I love her and I will miss her.
===========================
Parents: Billy Ward Payne (1913-1970) and Nell John Poppin (1914-1980)
Children: Stewart, Hazel and William
Spouse 1: Billy Ray Williams
Children: Charlotte, Victoria, Paul and David
Partner and friend: Linda Lou Schomaker
Child: Maya
===========================
This email from Hazel started our friendship. She explained it all.
From: "Hazel A Payne"
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 7:26 PM
I'm so happy to hear from you--bless Nancy for getting this chain started!! I'll start, as you did, with a little family history.
My mom was your aunt, Nell Payne (died, 1980) and my father was Billy Payne (died, 1967 or thereabouts). I have two brothers, Bill (still around) and Stewart (died 1983) and a couple of half brothers somewhere in Florida. I was born on October 2, 1939 in New London, Connecticut (Pop was a sailor and there's a naval base there).
I was married to the father of my four children, one of whom died in 1988 (Charlotte, my first born); I divorced said father about 20 years ago and we remain on friendly terms. I have seven grandchildren and one great grandchild on the way (due in July). My partner, Linda Schomaker, and I have been together for 12 years and adopted a beautiful little girl at birth--Maya will be three in June.
We own a smallish house in Berkeley and have a dog (Asta, a terrier) and two cats (Paris and Geneva), resident raccoons and opossums and other assorted creatures who use the fence next to our house as a nightly path. (Has your dog ever tangled with a skunk at 2AM? You haven't LIVED until you've smelled fresh skunk outside your bedroom window...).
In 1972 I became a "re-entry" student and spent the next 14 years getting first a Bachelor's degree in psychology and then a Master's degree in industrial/organizational psychology in 1986. I then worked in the area of human resources and landed in the specialty of compensation (still in the human resources arena) about 11 years ago, where my graduate training in research and statistics has served me well. I just closed my own consulting business in December and have taken a job with the Employers Group in San Francisco where I manage consulting projects. I also teach compensation at U.C. Berkeley Extension and am active in a couple of local human resource and compensation professional associations.
My avocation is books--books, books, books. I have hundreds of them and even though I don't have time to read as much as I'd like, I continue to compulsively buy them. The "to be read" stack continues to grow, my latest purchase being volume 2 of the Eleanor Roosevelt biography by Blanche Wiesen Cook. Current reading topics are mostly about the '40s and '50s, what Gore Vidal calls the "Golden Age." I love music and have S.F. symphony season tickets, the theater (latest musical was Fiddler on the Roof, latest play was Tallulah with Kathleen Turner [wow!])--and hang out at the local art museums on a regular basis. We hike, vacation where ever (this year, Possibly a vacation with all the family at Disneyland--we will fill up quite a few rooms at the Disneyland Hotel) and love Sedona (AZ), Paris and New York. I can also scan in pictures of me and all relevant others. I'm so glad you took the initiative and sent your email to me and the rest of the folks, and I look forward to hearing from you again (and the rest of you, too). Take care, Cousin Hazel
===========================
Parents: Billy Ward Payne (1913-1970) and Nell John Poppin (1914-1980)
Children: Stewart, Hazel and William
Spouse 1: Billy Ray Williams
Children: Charlotte, Victoria, Paul and David
Partner and friend: Linda Lou Schomaker
Child: Maya
===========================
This email from Hazel started our friendship. She explained it all.
From: "Hazel A Payne"
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 7:26 PM
I'm so happy to hear from you--bless Nancy for getting this chain started!! I'll start, as you did, with a little family history.
My mom was your aunt, Nell Payne (died, 1980) and my father was Billy Payne (died, 1967 or thereabouts). I have two brothers, Bill (still around) and Stewart (died 1983) and a couple of half brothers somewhere in Florida. I was born on October 2, 1939 in New London, Connecticut (Pop was a sailor and there's a naval base there).
I was married to the father of my four children, one of whom died in 1988 (Charlotte, my first born); I divorced said father about 20 years ago and we remain on friendly terms. I have seven grandchildren and one great grandchild on the way (due in July). My partner, Linda Schomaker, and I have been together for 12 years and adopted a beautiful little girl at birth--Maya will be three in June.
We own a smallish house in Berkeley and have a dog (Asta, a terrier) and two cats (Paris and Geneva), resident raccoons and opossums and other assorted creatures who use the fence next to our house as a nightly path. (Has your dog ever tangled with a skunk at 2AM? You haven't LIVED until you've smelled fresh skunk outside your bedroom window...).
In 1972 I became a "re-entry" student and spent the next 14 years getting first a Bachelor's degree in psychology and then a Master's degree in industrial/organizational psychology in 1986. I then worked in the area of human resources and landed in the specialty of compensation (still in the human resources arena) about 11 years ago, where my graduate training in research and statistics has served me well. I just closed my own consulting business in December and have taken a job with the Employers Group in San Francisco where I manage consulting projects. I also teach compensation at U.C. Berkeley Extension and am active in a couple of local human resource and compensation professional associations.
My avocation is books--books, books, books. I have hundreds of them and even though I don't have time to read as much as I'd like, I continue to compulsively buy them. The "to be read" stack continues to grow, my latest purchase being volume 2 of the Eleanor Roosevelt biography by Blanche Wiesen Cook. Current reading topics are mostly about the '40s and '50s, what Gore Vidal calls the "Golden Age." I love music and have S.F. symphony season tickets, the theater (latest musical was Fiddler on the Roof, latest play was Tallulah with Kathleen Turner [wow!])--and hang out at the local art museums on a regular basis. We hike, vacation where ever (this year, Possibly a vacation with all the family at Disneyland--we will fill up quite a few rooms at the Disneyland Hotel) and love Sedona (AZ), Paris and New York. I can also scan in pictures of me and all relevant others. I'm so glad you took the initiative and sent your email to me and the rest of the folks, and I look forward to hearing from you again (and the rest of you, too). Take care, Cousin Hazel
Hazel is my 1st cousin. It was with great sadness that I heard of her passing. She gave me encouragement to go to grad school and I did. She was a fantastic lady and so accomplished. I love her and I will miss her.
===========================
Parents: Billy Ward Payne (1913-1970) and Nell John Poppin (1914-1980)
Children: Stewart, Hazel and William
Spouse 1: Billy Ray Williams
Children: Charlotte, Victoria, Paul and David
Partner and friend: Linda Lou Schomaker
Child: Maya
===========================
This email from Hazel started our friendship. She explained it all.
From: "Hazel A Payne"
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 7:26 PM
I'm so happy to hear from you--bless Nancy for getting this chain started!! I'll start, as you did, with a little family history.
My mom was your aunt, Nell Payne (died, 1980) and my father was Billy Payne (died, 1967 or thereabouts). I have two brothers, Bill (still around) and Stewart (died 1983) and a couple of half brothers somewhere in Florida. I was born on October 2, 1939 in New London, Connecticut (Pop was a sailor and there's a naval base there).
I was married to the father of my four children, one of whom died in 1988 (Charlotte, my first born); I divorced said father about 20 years ago and we remain on friendly terms. I have seven grandchildren and one great grandchild on the way (due in July). My partner, Linda Schomaker, and I have been together for 12 years and adopted a beautiful little girl at birth--Maya will be three in June.
We own a smallish house in Berkeley and have a dog (Asta, a terrier) and two cats (Paris and Geneva), resident raccoons and opossums and other assorted creatures who use the fence next to our house as a nightly path. (Has your dog ever tangled with a skunk at 2AM? You haven't LIVED until you've smelled fresh skunk outside your bedroom window...).
In 1972 I became a "re-entry" student and spent the next 14 years getting first a Bachelor's degree in psychology and then a Master's degree in industrial/organizational psychology in 1986. I then worked in the area of human resources and landed in the specialty of compensation (still in the human resources arena) about 11 years ago, where my graduate training in research and statistics has served me well. I just closed my own consulting business in December and have taken a job with the Employers Group in San Francisco where I manage consulting projects. I also teach compensation at U.C. Berkeley Extension and am active in a couple of local human resource and compensation professional associations.
My avocation is books--books, books, books. I have hundreds of them and even though I don't have time to read as much as I'd like, I continue to compulsively buy them. The "to be read" stack continues to grow, my latest purchase being volume 2 of the Eleanor Roosevelt biography by Blanche Wiesen Cook. Current reading topics are mostly about the '40s and '50s, what Gore Vidal calls the "Golden Age." I love music and have S.F. symphony season tickets, the theater (latest musical was Fiddler on the Roof, latest play was Tallulah with Kathleen Turner [wow!])--and hang out at the local art museums on a regular basis. We hike, vacation where ever (this year, Possibly a vacation with all the family at Disneyland--we will fill up quite a few rooms at the Disneyland Hotel) and love Sedona (AZ), Paris and New York. I can also scan in pictures of me and all relevant others. I'm so glad you took the initiative and sent your email to me and the rest of the folks, and I look forward to hearing from you again (and the rest of you, too). Take care, Cousin Hazel
===========================
Parents: Billy Ward Payne (1913-1970) and Nell John Poppin (1914-1980)
Children: Stewart, Hazel and William
Spouse 1: Billy Ray Williams
Children: Charlotte, Victoria, Paul and David
Partner and friend: Linda Lou Schomaker
Child: Maya
===========================
This email from Hazel started our friendship. She explained it all.
From: "Hazel A Payne"
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 7:26 PM
I'm so happy to hear from you--bless Nancy for getting this chain started!! I'll start, as you did, with a little family history.
My mom was your aunt, Nell Payne (died, 1980) and my father was Billy Payne (died, 1967 or thereabouts). I have two brothers, Bill (still around) and Stewart (died 1983) and a couple of half brothers somewhere in Florida. I was born on October 2, 1939 in New London, Connecticut (Pop was a sailor and there's a naval base there).
I was married to the father of my four children, one of whom died in 1988 (Charlotte, my first born); I divorced said father about 20 years ago and we remain on friendly terms. I have seven grandchildren and one great grandchild on the way (due in July). My partner, Linda Schomaker, and I have been together for 12 years and adopted a beautiful little girl at birth--Maya will be three in June.
We own a smallish house in Berkeley and have a dog (Asta, a terrier) and two cats (Paris and Geneva), resident raccoons and opossums and other assorted creatures who use the fence next to our house as a nightly path. (Has your dog ever tangled with a skunk at 2AM? You haven't LIVED until you've smelled fresh skunk outside your bedroom window...).
In 1972 I became a "re-entry" student and spent the next 14 years getting first a Bachelor's degree in psychology and then a Master's degree in industrial/organizational psychology in 1986. I then worked in the area of human resources and landed in the specialty of compensation (still in the human resources arena) about 11 years ago, where my graduate training in research and statistics has served me well. I just closed my own consulting business in December and have taken a job with the Employers Group in San Francisco where I manage consulting projects. I also teach compensation at U.C. Berkeley Extension and am active in a couple of local human resource and compensation professional associations.
My avocation is books--books, books, books. I have hundreds of them and even though I don't have time to read as much as I'd like, I continue to compulsively buy them. The "to be read" stack continues to grow, my latest purchase being volume 2 of the Eleanor Roosevelt biography by Blanche Wiesen Cook. Current reading topics are mostly about the '40s and '50s, what Gore Vidal calls the "Golden Age." I love music and have S.F. symphony season tickets, the theater (latest musical was Fiddler on the Roof, latest play was Tallulah with Kathleen Turner [wow!])--and hang out at the local art museums on a regular basis. We hike, vacation where ever (this year, Possibly a vacation with all the family at Disneyland--we will fill up quite a few rooms at the Disneyland Hotel) and love Sedona (AZ), Paris and New York. I can also scan in pictures of me and all relevant others. I'm so glad you took the initiative and sent your email to me and the rest of the folks, and I look forward to hearing from you again (and the rest of you, too). Take care, Cousin Hazel
