Yes, this is long, but there is a lot of family story extracted from a longer autobiography that Jack wrote in 2000. Dear family, enjoy.
Jack was born in the Milwaukee Railroad Hospital in Tree Forks. His parents and older sisters lived at Eustis, just north of Three Forks, where his dad was an assistant substation operator for the Milwaukee Railroad.
When Jack started school, his mother, and now 5 children, stayed in a rented house in town during the week while he and his 3 sisters attended school. They went back to Eustis on weekends, weather permitting. The next year, school bus service was started to Eustis and they took the bus each day. If weather made bus travel impossible, they took the train into town and stayed at the Sacajawea Hotel. Jack attended Three Forks schools through his sophomore year in high school.
During Jack's sophomore year (1939-1940), his dad took a chief operator's job at the Francis substation. Bink and Mary Gail had graduated from high school and Herva was to graduate spring of 1940. Because it was about 50 miles from Francis to Bozeman over country roads, Herva, Jack, and his younger brother stayed in a "light housekeeping" motel in Bozeman until the end of the school year. (Their mother was with them most of the time.) For the next 2 years (1940-'41, 1941-'42) Herva, Jack, and his brother stayed in a rented apartment while Jack completed high school and Herva took her first two years of nurse's training.
In 1941, his dad got the chief operator's job at Piedmont, about 2 miles south of Whitehall. Jack's younger brother went to live with his parents in Whitehall. Herva and Jack stayed in the apartment until he graduated from Gallatin County High School in 1942.
In the summer of 1942, Jack worked for his uncle Ralph Hopkins at a lead-zinc mine near Elliston. Because his uncle did not want Jack to work underground, he spent a lot of time working with his cousin, John Hopkins, who was the mill designer-builder.
In September, Jack started his freshman year at Montana State College (MSC), majoring in Electrical Engineering. Pearl Harbor had been attacked the year before, and the war in Europe was not going well for England and France. Jack enlisted in the Navy V-12 program on November 14, 1942.
After his freshman year, Jack reported for active duty in the Navy V-12 program at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago on 1 July, 1943. In October 1944, he was transferred to Pre-Electrical-Electronics Technician's School at Greater Lakes Naval Training Center. Then, he went to Primary Electronics Training School at Hugh Manley High School in Chicago. In May 1945 he was transferred to Secondary Aircraft Electronic Technician School in Corpus Christi, Texas. After completing that school, he received a rating of Aircraft Electricians Technicians Mate 3rd Class. In January 1946 he was sent to San Diego Naval Air Station. He was about to be selected to go on an aircraft carrier going through the Panama Canal to the east coast when the number of points required for discharge was reduced to where he would soon be eligible for discharge. The only way to get the trip through the Panama Canal was to sign up for another hitch in the Navy, which he wasn't about to do. So, he was sent to Bremerton, Washington and discharged from the Navy on 8 May, 1946.
In the fall of 1946, Jack returned to MSC. He stayed at a boarding house run by Mrs. Liquin. Between his junior and senior year, Jack worked for her son, Fred, who owned Associated Engineers, a consulting firm that specialized in work for rural co-ops. He graduated from MSC in the spring of 1949 with a B.S. in electrical engineering and went to work for Fred, surveying rural power lines in the Circle, Richey, and Glendive areas of Montana.
Jack and a surveying crew member would often see this attractive girl with a pleasing personality at the restaurants in Glendive. They talked a waitress at the Northern Pacific Depot restaurant into introducing them after unsuccessfully trying to get acquainted on their own. They took her out to coffee after a Christmas play, but she wasn't sure who she was going out with and neither was Jack.
Jack went home to Piedmont for the Christmas holidays and his crew member stopped by on his way home to Ronan. He told Jack then that he had found another girl in Glendive and that if he was interested in Sylvia, it was O.K. with him.
Jack and Sylvia were married March 25, 1951 at the Methodist Church in Whitehall. When Mary Gail and Andy (Andersen) moved to student housing, Jack bought the 16 foot trailer that M.G. and Andy had been living in. Andy was going to school at MSC and M.G. was teaching. The trailer was moved to Circle, MT.
After a quick honeymoon trip, they went to the farm south of Richey so Jack could meet Mom and Dad Graber and Sylvia's daughter the first time. Sylvia's daughter had lived her with Grandma and Grandpa Graber for several years, so she stayed on the farm to complete the '51 school year and then came to live with her mom and new dad.
Jack's job took him to Elgin, North Dakota and then to the office in Bismarck. The trailer was too small for the 3 of them so they rented a small two bedroom furnished home and sold the 16 foot trailer. In 1952, Associated Engineers moved their office to Billings. Jack and Sylvia purchased a larger trailer home and moved into a trailer park not far from the engineering offices.
Early in 1954, a Boeing recruiting team came through Billings. Sylvia convinced Jack to talk to them although Jack was not very enthusiastic about it. What interest would an airplane company have in a power and telephone engineer? And, it was 48 below. Not a nice morning to be out any earlier than necessary. But, Boeing was just starting to develop the Bomarc Missile and was interested in Jack's Navy experience with radar.
Boeing made him an offer he couldn't refuse, and Associated Engineers wouldn't match. So, they were on their way to Seattle in April 1954 with all their belongings in a little 8 foot U-Haul behind a 1950 Studebaker. In 1955 a daughter was born and the family was 4.
After Jack's parents died, they used inheritance money for a down payment on some rental property. In the late 70's and early 1980's, Jack and Sylvia invested in more rental property which included a small house in the Ballard area of Seattle and three small condominium units in Laure/on Terrace Condominiums located close to Children's Hospital and the University of Washington. They also invested in some lots on Camano Island. All turned out to be good investments.
At Boeing, Jack worked as lead engineer or supervisor in the electronic ground support equipment field. He worked on the Bomarc Missile program, Minuteman program, Command Post program, and proposals for other government programs. When he retired, he was just starting on a ground communication program to work in connection with airborne surveillance in Saudi Arabia. In 1985, Jack retired after 31 years and 4 months working for Boeing.
In 2000, as an early 50th wedding present they took a cruise from Seattle to Alaska and enjoyed the company of family and 600 members of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America.
During retirement, Jack spent a great deal of time with yard work, he and Sylvia did some stamp collecting, and he was active at church. Jack and Sylvia also remembered folks with birthdays and anniversaries by writing notes and sending cards to members of the Fidelia class. They always enjoyed family time with their kids.
They attended Emmanuel Tabernacle and later Berean Bible Church which was established by former members of Emmanuel.
Jack died quietly at Bothell Health Care.
Jack was born in the Milwaukee Railroad Hospital in Tree Forks. His parents and older sisters lived at Eustis, just north of Three Forks, where his dad was an assistant substation operator for the Milwaukee Railroad.
When Jack started school, his mother, and now 5 children, stayed in a rented house in town during the week while he and his 3 sisters attended school. They went back to Eustis on weekends, weather permitting. The next year, school bus service was started to Eustis and they took the bus each day. If weather made bus travel impossible, they took the train into town and stayed at the Sacajawea Hotel. Jack attended Three Forks schools through his sophomore year in high school.
During Jack's sophomore year (1939-1940), his dad took a chief operator's job at the Francis substation. Bink and Mary Gail had graduated from high school and Herva was to graduate spring of 1940. Because it was about 50 miles from Francis to Bozeman over country roads, Herva, Jack, and his younger brother stayed in a "light housekeeping" motel in Bozeman until the end of the school year. (Their mother was with them most of the time.) For the next 2 years (1940-'41, 1941-'42) Herva, Jack, and his brother stayed in a rented apartment while Jack completed high school and Herva took her first two years of nurse's training.
In 1941, his dad got the chief operator's job at Piedmont, about 2 miles south of Whitehall. Jack's younger brother went to live with his parents in Whitehall. Herva and Jack stayed in the apartment until he graduated from Gallatin County High School in 1942.
In the summer of 1942, Jack worked for his uncle Ralph Hopkins at a lead-zinc mine near Elliston. Because his uncle did not want Jack to work underground, he spent a lot of time working with his cousin, John Hopkins, who was the mill designer-builder.
In September, Jack started his freshman year at Montana State College (MSC), majoring in Electrical Engineering. Pearl Harbor had been attacked the year before, and the war in Europe was not going well for England and France. Jack enlisted in the Navy V-12 program on November 14, 1942.
After his freshman year, Jack reported for active duty in the Navy V-12 program at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago on 1 July, 1943. In October 1944, he was transferred to Pre-Electrical-Electronics Technician's School at Greater Lakes Naval Training Center. Then, he went to Primary Electronics Training School at Hugh Manley High School in Chicago. In May 1945 he was transferred to Secondary Aircraft Electronic Technician School in Corpus Christi, Texas. After completing that school, he received a rating of Aircraft Electricians Technicians Mate 3rd Class. In January 1946 he was sent to San Diego Naval Air Station. He was about to be selected to go on an aircraft carrier going through the Panama Canal to the east coast when the number of points required for discharge was reduced to where he would soon be eligible for discharge. The only way to get the trip through the Panama Canal was to sign up for another hitch in the Navy, which he wasn't about to do. So, he was sent to Bremerton, Washington and discharged from the Navy on 8 May, 1946.
In the fall of 1946, Jack returned to MSC. He stayed at a boarding house run by Mrs. Liquin. Between his junior and senior year, Jack worked for her son, Fred, who owned Associated Engineers, a consulting firm that specialized in work for rural co-ops. He graduated from MSC in the spring of 1949 with a B.S. in electrical engineering and went to work for Fred, surveying rural power lines in the Circle, Richey, and Glendive areas of Montana.
Jack and a surveying crew member would often see this attractive girl with a pleasing personality at the restaurants in Glendive. They talked a waitress at the Northern Pacific Depot restaurant into introducing them after unsuccessfully trying to get acquainted on their own. They took her out to coffee after a Christmas play, but she wasn't sure who she was going out with and neither was Jack.
Jack went home to Piedmont for the Christmas holidays and his crew member stopped by on his way home to Ronan. He told Jack then that he had found another girl in Glendive and that if he was interested in Sylvia, it was O.K. with him.
Jack and Sylvia were married March 25, 1951 at the Methodist Church in Whitehall. When Mary Gail and Andy (Andersen) moved to student housing, Jack bought the 16 foot trailer that M.G. and Andy had been living in. Andy was going to school at MSC and M.G. was teaching. The trailer was moved to Circle, MT.
After a quick honeymoon trip, they went to the farm south of Richey so Jack could meet Mom and Dad Graber and Sylvia's daughter the first time. Sylvia's daughter had lived her with Grandma and Grandpa Graber for several years, so she stayed on the farm to complete the '51 school year and then came to live with her mom and new dad.
Jack's job took him to Elgin, North Dakota and then to the office in Bismarck. The trailer was too small for the 3 of them so they rented a small two bedroom furnished home and sold the 16 foot trailer. In 1952, Associated Engineers moved their office to Billings. Jack and Sylvia purchased a larger trailer home and moved into a trailer park not far from the engineering offices.
Early in 1954, a Boeing recruiting team came through Billings. Sylvia convinced Jack to talk to them although Jack was not very enthusiastic about it. What interest would an airplane company have in a power and telephone engineer? And, it was 48 below. Not a nice morning to be out any earlier than necessary. But, Boeing was just starting to develop the Bomarc Missile and was interested in Jack's Navy experience with radar.
Boeing made him an offer he couldn't refuse, and Associated Engineers wouldn't match. So, they were on their way to Seattle in April 1954 with all their belongings in a little 8 foot U-Haul behind a 1950 Studebaker. In 1955 a daughter was born and the family was 4.
After Jack's parents died, they used inheritance money for a down payment on some rental property. In the late 70's and early 1980's, Jack and Sylvia invested in more rental property which included a small house in the Ballard area of Seattle and three small condominium units in Laure/on Terrace Condominiums located close to Children's Hospital and the University of Washington. They also invested in some lots on Camano Island. All turned out to be good investments.
At Boeing, Jack worked as lead engineer or supervisor in the electronic ground support equipment field. He worked on the Bomarc Missile program, Minuteman program, Command Post program, and proposals for other government programs. When he retired, he was just starting on a ground communication program to work in connection with airborne surveillance in Saudi Arabia. In 1985, Jack retired after 31 years and 4 months working for Boeing.
In 2000, as an early 50th wedding present they took a cruise from Seattle to Alaska and enjoyed the company of family and 600 members of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America.
During retirement, Jack spent a great deal of time with yard work, he and Sylvia did some stamp collecting, and he was active at church. Jack and Sylvia also remembered folks with birthdays and anniversaries by writing notes and sending cards to members of the Fidelia class. They always enjoyed family time with their kids.
They attended Emmanuel Tabernacle and later Berean Bible Church which was established by former members of Emmanuel.
Jack died quietly at Bothell Health Care.
Yes, this is long, but there is a lot of family story extracted from a longer autobiography that Jack wrote in 2000. Dear family, enjoy.
Jack was born in the Milwaukee Railroad Hospital in Tree Forks. His parents and older sisters lived at Eustis, just north of Three Forks, where his dad was an assistant substation operator for the Milwaukee Railroad.
When Jack started school, his mother, and now 5 children, stayed in a rented house in town during the week while he and his 3 sisters attended school. They went back to Eustis on weekends, weather permitting. The next year, school bus service was started to Eustis and they took the bus each day. If weather made bus travel impossible, they took the train into town and stayed at the Sacajawea Hotel. Jack attended Three Forks schools through his sophomore year in high school.
During Jack's sophomore year (1939-1940), his dad took a chief operator's job at the Francis substation. Bink and Mary Gail had graduated from high school and Herva was to graduate spring of 1940. Because it was about 50 miles from Francis to Bozeman over country roads, Herva, Jack, and his younger brother stayed in a "light housekeeping" motel in Bozeman until the end of the school year. (Their mother was with them most of the time.) For the next 2 years (1940-'41, 1941-'42) Herva, Jack, and his brother stayed in a rented apartment while Jack completed high school and Herva took her first two years of nurse's training.
In 1941, his dad got the chief operator's job at Piedmont, about 2 miles south of Whitehall. Jack's younger brother went to live with his parents in Whitehall. Herva and Jack stayed in the apartment until he graduated from Gallatin County High School in 1942.
In the summer of 1942, Jack worked for his uncle Ralph Hopkins at a lead-zinc mine near Elliston. Because his uncle did not want Jack to work underground, he spent a lot of time working with his cousin, John Hopkins, who was the mill designer-builder.
In September, Jack started his freshman year at Montana State College (MSC), majoring in Electrical Engineering. Pearl Harbor had been attacked the year before, and the war in Europe was not going well for England and France. Jack enlisted in the Navy V-12 program on November 14, 1942.
After his freshman year, Jack reported for active duty in the Navy V-12 program at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago on 1 July, 1943. In October 1944, he was transferred to Pre-Electrical-Electronics Technician's School at Greater Lakes Naval Training Center. Then, he went to Primary Electronics Training School at Hugh Manley High School in Chicago. In May 1945 he was transferred to Secondary Aircraft Electronic Technician School in Corpus Christi, Texas. After completing that school, he received a rating of Aircraft Electricians Technicians Mate 3rd Class. In January 1946 he was sent to San Diego Naval Air Station. He was about to be selected to go on an aircraft carrier going through the Panama Canal to the east coast when the number of points required for discharge was reduced to where he would soon be eligible for discharge. The only way to get the trip through the Panama Canal was to sign up for another hitch in the Navy, which he wasn't about to do. So, he was sent to Bremerton, Washington and discharged from the Navy on 8 May, 1946.
In the fall of 1946, Jack returned to MSC. He stayed at a boarding house run by Mrs. Liquin. Between his junior and senior year, Jack worked for her son, Fred, who owned Associated Engineers, a consulting firm that specialized in work for rural co-ops. He graduated from MSC in the spring of 1949 with a B.S. in electrical engineering and went to work for Fred, surveying rural power lines in the Circle, Richey, and Glendive areas of Montana.
Jack and a surveying crew member would often see this attractive girl with a pleasing personality at the restaurants in Glendive. They talked a waitress at the Northern Pacific Depot restaurant into introducing them after unsuccessfully trying to get acquainted on their own. They took her out to coffee after a Christmas play, but she wasn't sure who she was going out with and neither was Jack.
Jack went home to Piedmont for the Christmas holidays and his crew member stopped by on his way home to Ronan. He told Jack then that he had found another girl in Glendive and that if he was interested in Sylvia, it was O.K. with him.
Jack and Sylvia were married March 25, 1951 at the Methodist Church in Whitehall. When Mary Gail and Andy (Andersen) moved to student housing, Jack bought the 16 foot trailer that M.G. and Andy had been living in. Andy was going to school at MSC and M.G. was teaching. The trailer was moved to Circle, MT.
After a quick honeymoon trip, they went to the farm south of Richey so Jack could meet Mom and Dad Graber and Sylvia's daughter the first time. Sylvia's daughter had lived her with Grandma and Grandpa Graber for several years, so she stayed on the farm to complete the '51 school year and then came to live with her mom and new dad.
Jack's job took him to Elgin, North Dakota and then to the office in Bismarck. The trailer was too small for the 3 of them so they rented a small two bedroom furnished home and sold the 16 foot trailer. In 1952, Associated Engineers moved their office to Billings. Jack and Sylvia purchased a larger trailer home and moved into a trailer park not far from the engineering offices.
Early in 1954, a Boeing recruiting team came through Billings. Sylvia convinced Jack to talk to them although Jack was not very enthusiastic about it. What interest would an airplane company have in a power and telephone engineer? And, it was 48 below. Not a nice morning to be out any earlier than necessary. But, Boeing was just starting to develop the Bomarc Missile and was interested in Jack's Navy experience with radar.
Boeing made him an offer he couldn't refuse, and Associated Engineers wouldn't match. So, they were on their way to Seattle in April 1954 with all their belongings in a little 8 foot U-Haul behind a 1950 Studebaker. In 1955 a daughter was born and the family was 4.
After Jack's parents died, they used inheritance money for a down payment on some rental property. In the late 70's and early 1980's, Jack and Sylvia invested in more rental property which included a small house in the Ballard area of Seattle and three small condominium units in Laure/on Terrace Condominiums located close to Children's Hospital and the University of Washington. They also invested in some lots on Camano Island. All turned out to be good investments.
At Boeing, Jack worked as lead engineer or supervisor in the electronic ground support equipment field. He worked on the Bomarc Missile program, Minuteman program, Command Post program, and proposals for other government programs. When he retired, he was just starting on a ground communication program to work in connection with airborne surveillance in Saudi Arabia. In 1985, Jack retired after 31 years and 4 months working for Boeing.
In 2000, as an early 50th wedding present they took a cruise from Seattle to Alaska and enjoyed the company of family and 600 members of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America.
During retirement, Jack spent a great deal of time with yard work, he and Sylvia did some stamp collecting, and he was active at church. Jack and Sylvia also remembered folks with birthdays and anniversaries by writing notes and sending cards to members of the Fidelia class. They always enjoyed family time with their kids.
They attended Emmanuel Tabernacle and later Berean Bible Church which was established by former members of Emmanuel.
Jack died quietly at Bothell Health Care.
Jack was born in the Milwaukee Railroad Hospital in Tree Forks. His parents and older sisters lived at Eustis, just north of Three Forks, where his dad was an assistant substation operator for the Milwaukee Railroad.
When Jack started school, his mother, and now 5 children, stayed in a rented house in town during the week while he and his 3 sisters attended school. They went back to Eustis on weekends, weather permitting. The next year, school bus service was started to Eustis and they took the bus each day. If weather made bus travel impossible, they took the train into town and stayed at the Sacajawea Hotel. Jack attended Three Forks schools through his sophomore year in high school.
During Jack's sophomore year (1939-1940), his dad took a chief operator's job at the Francis substation. Bink and Mary Gail had graduated from high school and Herva was to graduate spring of 1940. Because it was about 50 miles from Francis to Bozeman over country roads, Herva, Jack, and his younger brother stayed in a "light housekeeping" motel in Bozeman until the end of the school year. (Their mother was with them most of the time.) For the next 2 years (1940-'41, 1941-'42) Herva, Jack, and his brother stayed in a rented apartment while Jack completed high school and Herva took her first two years of nurse's training.
In 1941, his dad got the chief operator's job at Piedmont, about 2 miles south of Whitehall. Jack's younger brother went to live with his parents in Whitehall. Herva and Jack stayed in the apartment until he graduated from Gallatin County High School in 1942.
In the summer of 1942, Jack worked for his uncle Ralph Hopkins at a lead-zinc mine near Elliston. Because his uncle did not want Jack to work underground, he spent a lot of time working with his cousin, John Hopkins, who was the mill designer-builder.
In September, Jack started his freshman year at Montana State College (MSC), majoring in Electrical Engineering. Pearl Harbor had been attacked the year before, and the war in Europe was not going well for England and France. Jack enlisted in the Navy V-12 program on November 14, 1942.
After his freshman year, Jack reported for active duty in the Navy V-12 program at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago on 1 July, 1943. In October 1944, he was transferred to Pre-Electrical-Electronics Technician's School at Greater Lakes Naval Training Center. Then, he went to Primary Electronics Training School at Hugh Manley High School in Chicago. In May 1945 he was transferred to Secondary Aircraft Electronic Technician School in Corpus Christi, Texas. After completing that school, he received a rating of Aircraft Electricians Technicians Mate 3rd Class. In January 1946 he was sent to San Diego Naval Air Station. He was about to be selected to go on an aircraft carrier going through the Panama Canal to the east coast when the number of points required for discharge was reduced to where he would soon be eligible for discharge. The only way to get the trip through the Panama Canal was to sign up for another hitch in the Navy, which he wasn't about to do. So, he was sent to Bremerton, Washington and discharged from the Navy on 8 May, 1946.
In the fall of 1946, Jack returned to MSC. He stayed at a boarding house run by Mrs. Liquin. Between his junior and senior year, Jack worked for her son, Fred, who owned Associated Engineers, a consulting firm that specialized in work for rural co-ops. He graduated from MSC in the spring of 1949 with a B.S. in electrical engineering and went to work for Fred, surveying rural power lines in the Circle, Richey, and Glendive areas of Montana.
Jack and a surveying crew member would often see this attractive girl with a pleasing personality at the restaurants in Glendive. They talked a waitress at the Northern Pacific Depot restaurant into introducing them after unsuccessfully trying to get acquainted on their own. They took her out to coffee after a Christmas play, but she wasn't sure who she was going out with and neither was Jack.
Jack went home to Piedmont for the Christmas holidays and his crew member stopped by on his way home to Ronan. He told Jack then that he had found another girl in Glendive and that if he was interested in Sylvia, it was O.K. with him.
Jack and Sylvia were married March 25, 1951 at the Methodist Church in Whitehall. When Mary Gail and Andy (Andersen) moved to student housing, Jack bought the 16 foot trailer that M.G. and Andy had been living in. Andy was going to school at MSC and M.G. was teaching. The trailer was moved to Circle, MT.
After a quick honeymoon trip, they went to the farm south of Richey so Jack could meet Mom and Dad Graber and Sylvia's daughter the first time. Sylvia's daughter had lived her with Grandma and Grandpa Graber for several years, so she stayed on the farm to complete the '51 school year and then came to live with her mom and new dad.
Jack's job took him to Elgin, North Dakota and then to the office in Bismarck. The trailer was too small for the 3 of them so they rented a small two bedroom furnished home and sold the 16 foot trailer. In 1952, Associated Engineers moved their office to Billings. Jack and Sylvia purchased a larger trailer home and moved into a trailer park not far from the engineering offices.
Early in 1954, a Boeing recruiting team came through Billings. Sylvia convinced Jack to talk to them although Jack was not very enthusiastic about it. What interest would an airplane company have in a power and telephone engineer? And, it was 48 below. Not a nice morning to be out any earlier than necessary. But, Boeing was just starting to develop the Bomarc Missile and was interested in Jack's Navy experience with radar.
Boeing made him an offer he couldn't refuse, and Associated Engineers wouldn't match. So, they were on their way to Seattle in April 1954 with all their belongings in a little 8 foot U-Haul behind a 1950 Studebaker. In 1955 a daughter was born and the family was 4.
After Jack's parents died, they used inheritance money for a down payment on some rental property. In the late 70's and early 1980's, Jack and Sylvia invested in more rental property which included a small house in the Ballard area of Seattle and three small condominium units in Laure/on Terrace Condominiums located close to Children's Hospital and the University of Washington. They also invested in some lots on Camano Island. All turned out to be good investments.
At Boeing, Jack worked as lead engineer or supervisor in the electronic ground support equipment field. He worked on the Bomarc Missile program, Minuteman program, Command Post program, and proposals for other government programs. When he retired, he was just starting on a ground communication program to work in connection with airborne surveillance in Saudi Arabia. In 1985, Jack retired after 31 years and 4 months working for Boeing.
In 2000, as an early 50th wedding present they took a cruise from Seattle to Alaska and enjoyed the company of family and 600 members of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America.
During retirement, Jack spent a great deal of time with yard work, he and Sylvia did some stamp collecting, and he was active at church. Jack and Sylvia also remembered folks with birthdays and anniversaries by writing notes and sending cards to members of the Fidelia class. They always enjoyed family time with their kids.
They attended Emmanuel Tabernacle and later Berean Bible Church which was established by former members of Emmanuel.
Jack died quietly at Bothell Health Care.
