After graduating from FUHS, I started attending
school in Los Angeles which was interrupted after
the first year by a stint in the Air Force during
the Korean War. Upon discharge, I went to work for
North American Aviation in the Electronics
Research and Development Labs. I was involved in
such programs as the Navajo, Hounddog, Saturn,
Apollo, Space Shuttle, GPS Navigation Satellite
and a couple of unmentionables.
I first married while in the Air Force. Married
Rema Farnsworth (class of '50). We had four boys:
Charles (lives in Portland, Oregon), Michael J.
(Los Angeles), Stephen (Chandler, AZ) and Thomas
(Richmond Heights, Bay area). In 1965 I married my
current wife, Jean. She has a boy, Michael R.
(Buena Park) and a girl, Rhonda (Los Banos). We
lived in Buena Park until our retirement.
I retired in '87 and Jean retired in '88 from
Lucky Stores where she was an Administrative
Assistant in the Engineering Dept. Immediately
after retiring, we sold our house to one of our
kids and hit the road full time in our RV. Saw
most of the States and Canada during the next four
years. Also did some traveling in Europe, England
and Scotland, Malaysia, Alaska and Hawaii.
We finally settled down again in a very small town
northwest of Redding, CA. We lived on Lewiston
Lake buried deep in the pine trees and mountains
of the "Trinity Alps"....a far cry from So. Cal.
since the entire county has just 16,000
population. Our little "Shangri-La".
We moved here to Porterville in 1997.
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