Born April 1945 in Great Falls, Mt, went to St Mary's school then to Central. In '63 I joined the USNR and went to drills at the reserve center near the air port. Since it was an "electronics installation" I ended up a Radioman. Did training in San Diego, Seattle, Norfolk VA. amd even 3 days in Hawaii. Spent over 2 years on the USS Valley Forge. It was an old aircraft carrier that once carried planes with the folding wings. In my time it was a transport for the Marines and their helicopters deploying to "West Pac" i.e. Viet Nam. I especially enjoyed my time spent in the Philippines.
After leaving the active Navy, I enrolled in Maryknoll Seminary in the fall and spent two years there. While I enjoyed it, I soon realized that it wouldn't work for me. So, back to Great Falls, and working for my dad in construction, and for Intermountain Tile and Marble while, at the same time attending the College of Great Falls. There I graduated with a BA in accounting (1973). While at CGF, I met and married Susie Schumacher, and she ribs me about the fact that I brought my accounting books on our honey moon on Flat Head Lake. A few years later, she received an excellent job offer in Regina Saskatchewask but her parents were elderly, and we were the last of her family in Great Falls, so we stayed. I took over my dads business until she retired from teaching and I turned the business over to my oldest son. We have 3 sons, Phil (Joliet) Joe (Ft Benton), and Greg (Nashville).
A few years later we went to Nashville "for 2 months" to help Greg with his goals, music and performance horse work. That lasted 7 years when we finally bought a house in Joliet, and moved in about 2 years ago. We wanted to be back in Montana and near our grand children. We are keeping busy, but our schedule is more by the calendar than the clock.
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