Jessica Marie Green was the most important person in my life. She was my best friend, my partner, my companion, and my wife. I think about her every day and I miss her terribly. Below I will try to explain just how indispensable Jessica was to me.
Jessica Marie Cole was born on September 4, 1977 in Saginaw, MI to Douglass Lyal and Diane Marie (Dreffs) Cole. Jessica was the second of two children for the couple, and Jessica grew up with an older sister named Kathleen Mae. The two Cole daughters spent their early years living across Michigan including both Saginaw and Bridgeport. Jessica attended Schlukebier Elementary School, Kauffman Elementary School, Bridgeport Middle School, and Heritage High School. Long before she graduated from Heritage in 1995
It wasn’t until Jessica moved across the country to attend Arizona State University that she came into my life. During the start of the Spring 1997 semester, I met Jessica outside one of our sophomore level computer programming classes that covered C and COBOL. We were both attempting to get into the fairly limited Computer Information Systems program within the ASU Business College, and this particular course was one of the key classes.