Elba Shewmaker:
CLASS OF 1965
Northeast High SchoolClass of 1965
Kansas city, MO
Elba's Story
After high school, I went Central Missouri State, for a year. I had no idea what I was doing there, so I enlisted in the Air Force. I thought that would last for only four years, but twenty-one years later, I retired from the Air Force as a Senior Master Sergeant. While in the Air Force, I completed my Bachelors from the Hawaii Pacific University. I lived in Hawaii for ten years. I've traveled all over the world. Some great places and some not so much.
I then spent time working for General Electric Computer Service then to Bank of America.
At 55, I had a stroke. although my recovery was e...Expand for more
xcellent, it left me with a number of residual weaknesses, including an evil case of ADD and a memory full of holes. So, if I don't remember you I can only apologize on behalf of the stroke. I went back to work after three months, but two years later, I retired medically. I have four children, two girls and two boys, and seven grandchildren. My youngest child is twenty-one and a Senior at Mizzou.
I now live near St. Louis, with my wife Olga.
P.S. Because of the trouble caused by that confusing vowel at the end of my first name, I've used my middle name, David or Dave, since high school.
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