Homer Felknor:  

Life After graduation, I moved to Florida with my parents. After enlisting in the US Air Force (with classmate Ken Danser) and spending 8 years in the Far East and the southern US, I left the AF in 1964. I traveled around the US (Tulsa, New Orleans, Jersey Shore) celebrating my bachelorhood untill 1969 when I married Edna in a simple ceremony in Dallas, Pa. (Little "D"!) We lived in Oakland, NJ (far north Jersey) for several years with our daughter Kimberly. I was, for a time, the President of the Chamber of Commerce for Oakland. We owned a consumer Electronics sales and service store. One night I slipped on the ice and lay unconcious in the driveway for some time. I survived just fine, but vowed I would not live where I could die of exposure in my own driveway! So, goodbye Jersey, and Hello California! We lived in Huntington Beach, California from 1977 until 1980. This is where I joined a computer firm, Four Phase Systems, and my career in life was finally set (About time!). We were transfered to Dallas, Texas in 1980 where we remained until Dec 31 1999. In 1985 I left Four Phase and Joined Tandem Computers. I served as an Instructor and a Regional Communication Specialist. A great company to work for.....but the wheels came off after they fired the founder some 11 years later..... I still meet and email many of the employees of this wonderful company. We raised one daughter, Kimberly. She was her High School Valedictorian in Keller, Texas, and went on to get her BA (Texas A&M) and two masters degrees (Bowling Green & North Texas State). I was determined that she would have the opportunities that I, perhaps, had lacked. She was a Business Implementor for a Celluar/Internet company. In 1996 I left Tandem and joined a voice control company that shall remain nameless... I was happily recruited by Applied Communications Inc (a Tandem partner) just 9 months later and joined them as a Sales Analyst. I flew all over the country putting on Presentations, both product and business implementation. All of the US, Canada, Mexico and Colombia was my territory. They were a very fine company. I worked there for 5 years. I retired, reluctantly, in April 2001. Diabetes got me. Couldn't go-go-go anymore. We moved to N Ft Myers, Florida in Jan 2001. Kimberly passed away on Jan 9, 2006 from complications of Pneumonia in the hospital in Dallas. It ripped my heart out. She was Daddy's girl. I still cry and I guess I always will. Edna and I are both retired now. Edna has dementia. Primarily caused IMO from the trauma of her daughters death. There is no cure and no way to arrest the disease that each day takes a little more of my beloved Edna away. It is terrible to experience "the long goodbye". EDIT: Edna was diagnosed with Inoperable,untreatable lymphoma of the brain on July 22, 2010. She passed quietly into the hands of her God on August 17th, 2010. She is with her daughter now. In one way, it was a blessing...but I still wish I had my babe back. After 5 years I have returned to some level of normalcy. As a matter of fact I got married again....in May of 2017 to a wonderful girl from Oklahoma! We live in N Ft Myers in the winter time and Oklahoma in the summer. Our home in Oklahoma is in Ardmore....a mere 75 miles from where I spent many years in Texas. I r...Expand for more