Eric Groves:  

Life My name is Eric J. Groves but, have gone by the nickname "Jeff" since November 1968. My date of birth was 17 September 1945 . Before I was born, my mother lived in St. Mary's, Georgia. At the time that I was due, an impending, hurricane forced my mother to take a shrimp boat across the St. Mary's River to Fernandina Beach, Florida where I was born. During the first few years of my life, I lived in St Mary's , Georgia; Akron, Ohio; West Palm Beach, Florida, and Jacksonville, Florida. Between my 4th and 10th birthdays, I lived in a small town in North central Florida called, Palatka. In the summer of my 10th year, mother moved us to Natchez , Mississippi where we lived until I was 13. From Natchez, we moved to Plaquemine, Louisiana (just a bit south of Baton Rouge) where we lived for 6 months. At then end of our stay in Plaquemine, we moved north to Collingston, Louisiana and stayed there for about 6 months as well. Just before my 14th birthday (summer of 1959), mother moved us again; this time to Port Hueneme, California. I attended the 8th grade at Bard Elementary School in Hueneme, and the 9th, 10th, and most of the 11th grade at, Port Hueneme High School. During my high school years, I worked part time at Roller Gardens Skating Rink, in Wagon Wheel Junction (just north of Oxnard). In the early part of 1963 we moved into Oxnard, California, where I...Expand for more