My dad passed away as a result of an auto accident on September 20, 1975, the same month he retired, at the age of 63 and my aunt Norma passed away on August 23, 1999 at the age of 81. My dad was born in Mandan, North Dakota and Norma was born in Albert City, Iowa. They spent part of their early life living on Indian reservations in the midwest where their mother was a teacher and then in the 1930's the family settled down in Ohio, Illinois, a small town about 100 miles west of Chicago where my grandfather owned the local newspaper, The Ohio Herald.

My dad served in the U. S. Coast Guard during World War II and worked for a bank in New York after the war. We moved to Florida in 1951 and he spent a career with Miami Beach Federal Savings & Loan Association (later Financial Federal then Bank of America) at their main office on Lincoln Road and Washington Avenue on Miami Beach and then with their Norwood branch on NW 183rd Street just east of NW 7th Avenue from the early 1960's thru 1975 when he retired.

My aunt Norma was a college graduate and was a teacher in Illinois before joining the U. S. Marine Corps in World War II where she worked as an aircraft instrument technician at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in California. She returned to teaching after the war and then moved to Miami around 1947/1948. She worked at the Coconut Grove Bank on Main Highway in Coconut Grove in the late 1940's/early 1950's and was then hired by Herbert S. Jones to be his secretary and bookkeeper at Jones Shutter Products on NW 29th Street in Miami and then W. 20th Avenue in Hialeah from 1965 to 1970. In 1970, at the age of 52, she was hired by the U. S. Postal Service in the main office in Hialeah and she worked midnight shifts sorting mail for years. She then became a window clerk at the main office, the Palm Springs branch and the Palm Lakes branch. She then became head of the accounting division at the main branch working for Postmaster James Anderson where she served until she retired in the late 1980's. She then became active with the Broward County Friends of the Library in Pembroke Pines and volunteered to do income tax work every year for AARP.

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