Earl Tooke:  

I've lived in Mission Viejo, Kansas City, Garland and now Sachse. California was short-lived, and Missouri was home for seven years until I graduated from UMKC. In 1991 I married my best friend from Garland, nearly two years after moving to Kansas City. We stayed there until 1995 when we moved back home to Garland and began nesting. We are developers, primarily commercial property in downtown Dallas. We live on the edge of Sachse on 10 acres which sits at the top of the hill at Pleasant Valley and Merrit. We have a 5th grade son and a 3rd grade daughter. We camp on rivers during the spring, summer and Fall, and we sit close to a constant fire in our living room during the winter. After High School I worked and played and put-off family pressure to attend college. A short stint in CA landed me back at home, with mom. Reluctantly I enrolled at Richland in 1987. Shortly thereafter I was hired by an environmental consulting firm and my outlook on life and school evolved quickly into an aspiration for more. I was transferred to Overland Park in 1989 and married Deborah Cass (from Berkner) in 1991. We moved across the sta...Expand for more