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Dad was born on February 5, 1942, in Newton, Kansas. When he was still young, his mother moved with him to San Bernardino, California and later to Sacramento after she married his stepfather. He grew up in the Del Paso Heights area and attended El Camino High School from which he graduated in 1959.

After graduation, he joined the Air Force Reserve where he worked as an airplane mechanic. He was called up during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but luckily it didn't escalate and he was honorably discharged.

He later went to work for the California Franchise Tax Board while attending college but left college and got a full time job at the Department of Motor Vehicles. It was there that he met his future wife, Sandi. They married on June 4, 1966, and remained married for 53 years. Shortly after marriage, with much encouragement from Sandi and his mom, he returned to school, eventually earning a degree in Business from Sacramento State University. He continued to work at the DMV, and when they first installed computers, he went into data processing where he worked until his early retirement due to advancing Parkinson's Disease.

It took persistence for Dad to get an official diagnosis as doctors told him he was too young to have Parkinson's. I recall this going on for several years before being diagnosed. He never gave up and fought the disease for nearly 30 years.

He entered into rest on July 12, 2019. He will be remembered as a loving husband and father.