Born at Tripler Army Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii while my Father was serving our Great Country as a Lieutenant aboard the USS Nicholas DDE449, we soon returned to the Badger Pocket area of the Kittitas Valley where my parents farmed the original homestead first cleared by my grandfather in the 1930's.  
As the third eldest in a family of seven other siblings, we spent our childhood working in the fields and orchards, as well as riding horses a... Show more