Lyn Vosatka Lynes (Leesburg, FL) “It sure doesn’t seem like it’s been 50 years! I remember quite clearly all kinds of things from my 13 years in Brecksville schools. Does anyone remember the air raids in the hall, recess with baseball games, huge snowballs being rolled around the school yard, snowball fights, interclass baseball games, reenacting the Civil War (gray and blue hats)? Also does anyone remember pep rallies, dances, scraping gum off seat bottoms in the gym and running conversations about each other and our teachers? We all received a wonderful education. The accomplishments of people in our class are really impressive.” 

Lyn started out with a year at Wittenberg University. She then decided on nursing school. She had always wanted to be a nurse. She has worked in many areas of nursing but loved anything with patient contact. Lyn worked for 30 years. She married in 1965 and lived in Akron for eight years. They moved to Broadview Hts. and then to Erie, Pennsylvania. They wound up back in Brecksville in time for their three kids to start school. Scott ’86, and Julie ’88 are Brecksville grads. “It was fun having my kids in ‘my old school’.”

Lyn divorced in 1986 and married Bill Lynes in 1989. His three boys are also Brecksville grads; Jim ’81, Mike ’82 and Charley ’85. “We went from six kids to six kids plus spouses plus nine grandchildren. “Its fun keeping up with all of them. We try to spend time with them when we can.”

“We moved to Perrysburg, Ohio (outside Toledo) in 1990 and lived there for the next 14 years. The town was small but reminded us of Brecksville. Alan, my youngest, graduated from high school in Perrysburg in 1995. We retired in 1998 after Bill had a stroke. He completely recovered. We had bought a motor home the year before and took off for the first of many log grips. We fell in love with traveling this way. We traveled to a lot of well-known places and also did a lot of exploring of small, out-of-the-way places. We would ask someone in a small town ‘What should we see here?’ There is always something to see. We traveled two to three months at a time and went home for two months or so. Our favorite overall trip was Rving to Alaska, a true adventure.”

Lyn and Bill bought a place in Florida in 2003, as they had some friends there and liked where they were. She found out later in 2003 she had bilateral breast cancer. They took their Toledo house off the market and Lyn had chemo and radiation for about a year.

“Moving to Florida finally took place in 2004. Adrienne Schrauf Hastings lives around the corner and Stu and Dot Bailey live around another corner. The Baileys lived around the corner from my parents’ house in Brecksville. They moved in when we were in ninth grade. I still have to behave in front of the teachers. Bonnie Slama, Barb Schaal, Adrienne and I still get together.”
 

[Lyn passed away on May 4, 2011. She was born on February 13, 1943, in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a member of the United Church of Christ in Brecksville, OH. She was a R.N. in numerous hospitals in Ohio, including Lutheran Medical Center in Cleveland and St. Vincent Hospital in Toledo. She is survived by her husband, William P. Lynes of Leesburg, FL; children, Scott, Julie and Alan Hopkins and Jim, Mike and Charley Lynes; nine grandchildren, Noah, Miller, Makenzie, Jackson, Henry, Carter, Bailey, Brad and Nicholas.]