Lee Kennedy:  

Myrna and I got married in 1966 while attending CSU. She went into Soc. Work and I started as a Branch Manager of two Savings and Loan offices in Boulder. I did well in banking. I was in Sr. Management when I was 27 and on the Board of Directors of a bank in Wyoming by the time I was 37. I also won two first place national marketing awards for banks between $500 million and $1 billion in deposits. Myrna and I had two children, Brian (1974) and Amy (1977). Brian is an attorney in So. Denver and Amy is in charge of marketing for a company in Colo Spgs. We lived in Colo Spgs while the kids were in high school. We got into the horse program in Wyoming and by the time we lived in the Black Forest, Amy was showing every weekend. She ended up taking State Champion in both Western and English before we moved to OR. Myrna's asmha was so bad that she had been in the hospital about 30 times in about 14 months. So we were forced to either move to TX or to the Northwest. I had a job offer in Eugene OR so we moved there in 1996. I managed the retail banking, marketing, insurance, stocks and bonds, and most of the other functions that were not related to commercial real estate for a bank that was about $180 million when I got there and about $800 million when I retired. Life was going well, Myrna did not have another ashma attact after we moved and we enjoyed being close to the mountains and the coast. Myrna was back to skiing, hiking and she even went hunting and fly fishing with me a few times. We got to do quit a lot of traveling thru the Bank and returned to Colo about twice a year. In 2006, I had to have my neck operated on again. I had it fused in two places in 1991, while I lived in Colo. I did not do a good job of picking a Dr. He operated three times and I ended up suffering brain damage. I had global amnishia (I did no...Expand for more