Maurice Batista:  

Life Born in El Salvador. Immigrated in 1958. Attended West Tampa Junior High in Tampa, Florida. Moved to Hazelton, Pennsylvania in 1959. Attended DA Harman Jr. High then Hazelton High. Dropped out of High School to join the US Army. Served in the Army until April 1967. Having obtained by GED diploma enrolled in College of San Mateo then San Francisco Community College and Golden Gate University graduating with a BA in Administration of Justice. Graduated from San Fransiwco School of Theatre Arts. Performed in numerous plays and was an extra in Bullit, Petulia, What's Up Dic? and Dirty Harry. Dropped out of the fantasy world when I fell in love with my current partner in life, Anabella. While campaigning for a legislator running for election as a state senator, I was offered a job as field representative after he won. I served in that capacity until my parents retired to the Tampa Bay area. I was very cloe to my father and I missed him terribly. In 1977, we moved to Tampa, Florida. My wife was an executive with Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. I could not find a suitable job. So I got my father out of retirement and with our savings we bought an auto repair shop we named Batista Import Auto which serviced and repaired japanese made cars. That was the beginning of my career in the automotive field. My father suffered a stroke in 1987 and returned with my mother to California to live with my sister and her husband. I could not raise the funds to buy my Dad, so the business was...Expand for more