Owen McCoy:  

Life After high school, went into US Navy Submarine Force, serving on 8 different subs and two shore duty tours in Hawaii between 1959 and 1982, when I retired as a Master Chief Fire Control Technician. Married a beautiful Hawaiian hula dancer, Pearl, and we raised 3 kids, 2 boys and a girl. Pearl passed away in 1996. I attended the 40th class of 1959 reunion (my first ever) in 1999, where I remet classmate Patricia McDonald, who in 1959 lived 5 houses away from me. We communicated via mail, then email, and then IMing for many months, and I finally married her one year to the day after the reunion. We now together have 14 grandkids, her 8 and my 6. We had a "traditional" Irish themed wedding at the Lawrence Welk Resort in Escondido. We spent about 4 years in our first Escondido home in the Country Club area of Escondido, then moved to Kingman, AZ in 2004, to accompany her 80+ year old parents. After two horrible years of wind and fine blowing dust, we were able to move back to Escondido, where we purchased another Country Club home, a "fixer-upper". After the death of both of Patty's parents, we again moved to the house Patty had bought for them, above the now defunct Escondido Country Club golf course. After the Navy, I became a Federal Civil service employee, working at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, CA as an electronics worker and a nuclear qualified electrician from 1982 until 1996. Mare Island was closed due to base closure, so I went to McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento as an electronics mechanic, working on ground approach radars until base closure got ...Expand for more