Bob Powell:  

Life My Spouse Part of my career with the Woolworth Co. was managing Woolworth stores. When I was appointed to my first store in Fort William as Manager I went into the store to introduce my self to my Office Manager and Personnel Manager. When I went into my office, there she was sitting in my chair with her feet up on my desk. A year later we were married. My Kids I have three girls and one boy. All are married and have given me seven grandchildren. Five boys and two girls. My oldest and youngest daughters live in Thunder Bay with my wife and I. My second oldest daughter lives in Winnepeg, and my son lives in Bolton My career with the Woolworth Col. took my family and I from Vancouver to Halifax with stops in between in Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Fort William (Thunder Bay), Toronto, Ottawa, Dartmouth/Halifax. In those relocations we bought and sold eleven houses and two luxury condo's. Most of those transfers were with the Woolco Dept Store Division of the F.W.Woolworth Co. as General Manager of the stores located in the cities mentioned above. They were an excellent company to work for. Wal-Mart was another story. In retirement, life has been very full. Back playing hockey (goal-tender), taking flying lessons (at touch and go), trapping, taking piano lessons, taking odd jobs, home projects, hobbies(modelling CPR steam locomotives in HO scale and my home work-shop). Thats all he wrote folks. A NEW CHAPTER IN OUR LIVES The profile above was done about a year or so after retirement and had moved from Ottawa to Thunder Bay. We lived in Thunder Bay for ten y...Expand for more