After high school I attended
Arizona State College in
Flagstaff for four years. Now it is called Northern Arizona University.
Then I married Karen and we had four kids. We had a daughter, Mia
43; and three boys, Chris 42, Jim 41, and Sean 36. Our daughter married
and became Mia Oliver and gave us two grandchilfen. One of my sons, Jim,
has two children. Our son Sean
has one son. Our third son is Chris. Our five grandchildren are
Jake 10, Corina 13, Christian 9, Alexa 7, and Tanner 4. I spent a lot of time with
my sons doing sports including baseball and fishing. Then they grew up.
I worked for a liquor distributor for 28
years. My second job was working for Gila County helping people get
trained for new jobs.
The program I was working in was funded by
the Federal government. We lived in Flagstaff and when other counties
decided to go for the funds Gila county was earning, I moved my job to the
counties nearer to our home. I did work for Coconino county, Apache
County, and Navajo County. After 13 years with the counties I
retired.
At times we have lived other places like
Isleton California where as Karen grew up in the Vacaville area nearby.