Fairmont State grad Steve Mikulski, Class of 1964, a Montgomery County Public Schools teacher of engineering design married to Holly White Mikulski and living in Germantown, Maryland, celebrated his 35^th wedding anniversary today.

Steve teaches joyfully at Quince Orchard High School.

Steve’s mother was Violet Morris Higinbotham Mikulski, Class of 1944. She passd away in 2014.

Violet was born in 1923 in Enterprise, the only child of Courtie “Jack” and Eunice Louise (Belt) Morris.  She out-lived both husbands, Eugene Higinbotham and Stephen “Charlie” Mikulski, her step-father Lloyd Whaley, who hired her mother as his housekeeper before marrying her, and four step-siblings, Harold Whaley, Jeryl Whaley, Saranell Shaffer and Evalina Rowand. 

Violet lived in Carolina, where she worked in the U.S. Post Office from 1936 until 1968, when she moved to Monongah. She was a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist at Fairmont General Hospital for 30 years.

Steve’s siblings are Tom Mikulski, Class of 1966, who grew up in Carolina and lives in Henderson, Nevada; David Higinbotham and wife Cheryl of Greensburg, Pennsylvania; Catherine Rogers and husband Harry of Fairmont; and Susan Morgan and husband Nick Perrotto of Cupertino, California.  

Steve and Holly’s daughter, Kristen Mikulski Mitchell, lives in Istanbul, Turkey with husband Nick Mitchell.

Other Mikulskis who graduated from Monongah High or Marion High:

Carolyn Prahl Mikulski, Class of 1966.

Kathy Mikulski Rogers, Class of 1969.

Cheri Mikulski Smith, North Marion 1988.