After High School, I went to College at Boise State University where I was majoring in Biology with a minor in Criminal Justice. From there I was hoping to go to Washington State University for a Veterinary Degree. In my softmore year, I met LeAnn Paulsen, who was from Idaho Falls, Idaho. I ended up working for the state Fish and Game dept. that next summer and we were married that same summer. I never went back to College.
I was married to LeAnn for about nine years and we had four sons, to who I never really got to know very well. My oldest boys, Donovan and Vaughn, did try to see and get to know me as the years went by. The youngest two, Shaun and Tyler, I have never got to know. ( - To my sons; ... I wish that things could have been different !!! )
During the time I was married to LeAnn I was In the US Air Force and after my tour I went into a special Electronics school, where I became knowledgable in Computer Technology. LeAnn and I got divorced in the fall of 1983. We are still friends...
That same fall, the company I worked for moved me to Seattle WA, where I met and happily later married, Judy Ferris. We spent 9 years together in Washington, Colorado, and Utah. We had three children together; Ashley, Kyle, and Sterling. We lost Ashley to a "Black Ice" auto accident on Dec 19th, 1987. She was two years and two months old, and her loss to Judy and myself eventually ( in my opinion ... ) led to the disolution of our happy relationship together. Nothing was the same, and my life has never been "right" since... During the last few years together, we broke apart once and tried to mend the void created after we lost our daughter. It was during this "mending - time" that Sterling was born, and as if we needed to add to our great distress, lost him only ten days later. Judy decided she could no longer deal with things, and was also seeing a neighbor who was a member of our church, so she applied for a divorce (She remarried a different member of the Mormon Church in the Logan Temple six months later). There are many of my friends and my family who still wonder how I (or even if I did) manage to get through that tough and difficult time. I still wonder myself.......
I would like to say here and now that of all the women I've known in my lifetime, Judy ("Janzy") was, and always will be my first "True" love. I'm not sure if I can or ever will be the kind of person I was then again, but.......... I will always love you "Janz"
The year after Judy and I finally broke up I took EMT Training with EMEDCO in Sandy, UT, and also attended classes at Salt Lake Community College (in Salt Lake City, Utah), for Cat. I Police Academy Training. I finished up a year later by taking the Cat. II training in West Valley, Ut at the state Police Academy. After completing the Cat II training I went back to Washington state to try to start over. Judy and I have not seen each other since 1991 (Since we lost track of each other my parents and my other sons have not seen or heard from Kyle either,....... since the fall of 1991).
In Washington state I worked doing armed security for various companies, including the Washington State Patrol at one of the local college campuses. I was also working doing computer repair and networking services. I had many special friends in my life during this time, but noone I was attached to...
In the fall of 1999 I had the opportunity to go to Prince of Wales Island in Alaska with a friend and co-worker (Michael Brown) to help open a computer repair shop, so off to Alaska I went. The shop didn't work, but I moved to Juneau, and stayed. I made many friends who mean very much to me in Alaska. But there is one couple, one young man, and one young lady who will always be in my heart from now on. Rob & Tasha, Patrick, & Cindy,...... I really miss you guys.....................
From Juneau, in the spring of 2001 I moved to Arizona to be with someone I knew since I was out of high school. Kathy Harris had been riding horses when I used to help my brother Jan, and she wanted to have someone in her life she could believe in. We worked on getting her Grandparents ranch in Dolan Springs, AZ going, but it just didn't work. I moved into Las Vegas in the fall of 2002, to plan on going back to either Idaho or Alaska in the spring or summer of 2003.
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