Where Lived
Where lived....
~'53 St. George, IL. Farm about 2 miles ESE from St. George and about a quarter mile directly east of my Grandfather and Grandmother’s farm (where my dad grew up), only here for 6-8 months as a baby. Coordinates: 41.178421, -87.747963.
‘53 - NOV62 St. George, IL. Farm about 1 mile southwest of St. George, on west side of Exline Creek (now Exline Slough) and on south side of (what is now) E 4000 N Road. Our farm was about 1 mile directly west of my Grandfather and Grandmother’s farm (again, where my dad grew up). Coordinates: 41.176757, -87.786699.
NOV62 - DEC64 Sullivan, IL
DEC64 - JUN68 Fond du Lac, WI. Our house was just north of Taycheedah about a half mile up Sandy Beach Road and right on southeast shore of Lake Winnebago.
JUN68 - MAY70 Brainerd, MN
MAY70 - AUG70 Pelican Rapids, MN. Rented a room in a large house across from the Hospital. Marine Mechanic at Froelich Marine on northwest shore of Pelican Lake for the summer.
AUG70 - SEP72 Brainerd, MN. Started college while still working at Rademacher Marine.
SEP72 - DEC72 Fort Atkinson, WI. At parent’s house while waiting to go into USAF, Marine Mechanic at Tofte Marine in Madison. Parents had recently moved to Fort Atkinson from MN in JUN72. (Fort Atkinson is about 30 miles southeast of Madison, WI).
DEC72 - FEB73 Lackland AFB (San Antonio, TX). USAF basic training.
FEB72 - NOV73 Keesler AFB (Biloxi, MS). USAF Electronic Countermeasures (ECM, aka Electronic Warfare) Technician school.
DEC73 - APR75 K.I. Sawyer AFB (Marquette, MI). 410th Bomb Wing. USAF ECM Technician. Lived on-base from DEC73 to ~OCT74, then off-base from ~OCT74 to APR75 at “the Crossroads” in a mobile home at the northwest corner of Michigan Hwy 553 and County Hwy 480).
MAY75 - MAY76 Osan AB, Korea. 51st AMS (Avionics Maintenance Squadron). USAF ECM Technician. (Osan is about 60 km south of Seoul).
MAY76 - AUG76 Fort Atkinson, WI. Parent’s house after the USAF and before heading to Milwaukee restarting college.
AUG76 - NOV78 Milwaukee, WI. Had a great apartment on the 7th floor of a 7-story apartment building on Prospect Avenue directly across from the Jewish Community Center -- had pretty good view to the north and some to the northeast looking out to Lake Michigan.
NOV78 - AUG81 Northwest suburbs of Chicago (apartments in Arlington Heights, Cary, Fox River Grove)
AUG81 - AUG83 Nacogdoches, TX (in east Texas, north of Houston and south of Texarkana). Was back in college, actually graduating this time.
AUG83 - APR90 Dallas area - Dallas, AUG83-APR84; Garland, APR84-OCT86; and Rowlett, OCT86-APR90.
APR90 - SEP96 Alice Springs, Northern Territory (NT), Australia. Denice and I had only been married for just over two (2) years when arriving.
OCT 97 - APR98 Denver and northern VA. I was in Denver area from SEP96 to OCT97 (with Denice and the three (3) boys: Nathaniel, Alexander, and Kristofer), and then in northern VA area from OCT 97 to APR98 (by myself while looking for house and traveling; Denice and the boys still in Denver waiting to move). Denice and the boys in Denver area from SEP96 to APR98. I was back in Australia twice during this time.
APR98 - DEC04 Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. Second time.
DEC04 - JAN08 Brighton, CO. Denice and the kids (Nathaniel, Alexander, Kristofer, and Zoe) at Brighton from JUL04 (I returned back to Australia in AUG04 until getting back in DEC04).
JAN08 - APR18 Haymarket, VA (We were in northern Virginia for a lot longer than planned....never believed or thought being there so long.....we thought we would be out of there after 3-4 years. Denice was there until house sold in APR18 even though I started working in Colorado Springs in DEC17 – I was TDY to the Springs in DEC17 and JAN18 and started renting a townhouse in FEB18 on a month-to-month basis.)
FEB18 - SEP18 Colorado Springs, CO. Furnished rental townhouse and then a small house while waiting to close on the house in Pueblo West.
SEP18 - Present Pueblo West, CO