I was born on a farm 4 miles South of Thomas Oklahoma.

My Grandmother Fortune owned the farm and she sold it in 1944 when I was 10 years old. We moved into town at that time. I lived there until 1955 and moved to Riverside, California after I got out of the army. My parents had moved there 6 months before. I started working for the Railroad in 1952 after graduating from high school. I retired from the railroad in 1994, "40 years of service".