We moved to Aberdeen, S. D. where I went to high school and started college, was interrupted by WW II, spent three years in CPS, civilian public service rather than the military where I did not have to learn to kill people.  After the war I went on and finished college in 1948 earning a B. S. degree in teaching with a major in Industrial Arts, minors in Math and Business.  Later I got my Master’s degree in Industrial Education and another minor in Driver Education. 

I married a beautiful lady and had two children. a son named Syd and a daughter named Suzanne.  Taught in S. D. for eight years, the last five at the school where I went to high school, three years in Muskegon, Mich., eight years in Round Lake, Ill., one year in Pocatello, Idaho, and nineteen years in Auburn, WA.  In all, I worked 39 years as a teacher. 

My marriage ended and ten years later I married another beautiful lady in 1983.  She died in 1993 and I’ve been alone since.  I moved to the Ponderosa, near Plain, on August 1^st 1998 to a cabin purchased by my daughter, Suzanne, son-in-law Larry and myself.

Ed Anderson and wife Delores, our previous pastor at PCC, came to Plain within a month of me.  Ed and I golfed once a week during the summer and hit the slopes during the winter at Steven’s Pass.  Their daughter Lynette and husband Phil are now our pastor team.  Bill Aho, who lives in the Ponderosa, is my fishing partner, Jim Adamson is my present golfing partner, and Sally Fairbank is my skiing partner. 

I got the shingles in my right arm and shoulder two years ago, and my kids wanted to move me to Vancouver, WA. to be near my son Syd, but I’ve recovered nicely from the shingles and hope to remain here where I’ve developed lasting relationships.  I remain an active member of PCC especially involved in Just Plain Seniors group.