Corinne Miranda Stinton, was born on April 29, 1943, to Jose and Geneva (Whitfield) Gacusana at White Earth, Minnesota. She spent many fun filled summers there at the family cabin on South Twin Lake while growing up. She met the love of her life while in high school at Akron, Iowa, and married Dale Stinton while in college. They celebrated 60 wonderful years of marriage in August of 2022. Corinne and Dale lived for 38 years in central Illinois, and for many of those years Corinne was an administrative secretary for Bloomington High School. In 2005, they retired to Minnesota and built a home on an acreage near Evansville where they lived for 14 years until moving to the Alexandria area.