Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mother was Canadian, father American. Family moved back to the USA in 1945 and grew up on a farm south of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, high school in Bradley, Illinois, university at Univ of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, married Viva Lee Bernice McCarty in Bradley in 1960, 27+ years active service in the Army Signal Corps, retiring in 1987. Adopted the full-time RV lifestyle after retirement and began genealogy research. 17,000 names in my genealogy files as of 2018.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mother was Canadian, father American. Family moved back to the USA in 1945 and grew up on a farm south of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, high school in Bradley, Illinois, university at Univ of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, married Viva Lee Bernice McCarty in Bradley in 1960, 27+ years active service in the Army Signal Corps, retiring in 1987. Adopted the full-time RV lifestyle after retirement and began genealogy research. 17,000 names in my genealogy files as of 2018.