We’re Deb and Ted, and Topsail Island has been part of our family’s story for decades.
Ted first discovered Topsail Island while serving our country in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. Years later, after we met, married, and started a family, it became one of those special places we kept coming back to.
Our story together began in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. Deb grew up in Williamsville, New York, near Buffalo, and moved to the Philadelphia area for college. Ted grew up in Kennett Square, where his father was a teacher and his mother was a school nurse. Ted spent many years as a mushroom farmer in an area famous for producing some of the country’s fresh mushrooms. We met in Kennett Square, fell in love, and married in the early 1980s.
As our family grew, Topsail Island became part of our children’s childhood. We made the trip from Pennsylvania year after year because we loved the beautiful beaches, relaxed pace, and the feeling that Topsail was somewhere you could truly get away. Our three children grew up playing on these beaches and searching the sands of Surf City for shark teeth. Those are memories we still treasure today.
Our children are now grown and married, with careers as a veterinarian, middle school teacher, and mechanical engineer, and we now live on a small farm outside Raleigh, North Carolina. But our love for Topsail Island has never gone away.
Today, through our homes at Ocean Watch Villas, we get to share a little piece of the Topsail Island we have loved for so many years. We hope our homes give you a beautiful, comfortable place to slow down, reconnect with the people you love, enjoy the ocean, and create some wonderful Topsail memories of your own.