I was one of twenty-nine children born on Friday, March 3rd, 1933, in the Marie Donaldson Hospital in Denver, CO. With my brother we became a family of four. Six weeks later my mom, brother and I moved by bus to LA to join my father who had found work. We finally settled in west LA, having moved many times following work. I attended school there, eventually going to UCLA and the USC Pharmacy School. Working at various types of pharmacies wasn’t my cup of tea. Many positions later I worked at UCLA Lab of Nuclear Medicine & Radiation studies.
Following other employment, I became a chemist for the City of Oxnard, then Wastewater Operations with Ventura County, onto Simi Valley Sanitation Dist. and finally to the City of Los Angeles as an Operating Engineer. Retiring in 1998, I moved to Ojai and lived there for thirty-five years.
My first marriage gave me two children, a boy and a girl. My parents’ burials gave me anxious moments in the sixties. Marrying again from 1984-2022 was the best thing that ever happened to me. That’s my life in a nutshell.