Pg. 02: Synopsis
A farm near Partridge, Kansas, became my birthplace on November 3, 1918. I was raised in Hutchinson, Kansas; attended school in Hutch from kindergarten through Junior College; then went to K-State at Manhattan, graduating in 1941.
I went to work in Chicago for the Automatic Electric Company in June of 1941 and was deferred during World War II. In Chicago, I met and married Mary Campbell of Newton, Iowa. Peggy was born in Chicago.
In 1946 we moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, where I accepted a position with the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company. Mary and I have 5 children — Peggy, Phyllis, Marilyn, Keith, and Martha. The last four were born in Lincoln. At the current writing (April 1991) there are 18 grandchildren.
In 1981 I took early retirement in order to do some things my job was getting in the way of — such as visit grandchildren, play radio, learn about computers, do church chores, do some relaxed reading, travel to New England and Ohio, take naps, and write memoirs.
The remembrances which follow expand somewhat (ha!) on the above.
