Steve Phelps:  

Life Here it is the for those interested: Hung around Covina till I went in the Army in "72" Went to Germany and drove heavy equipment then did OJT to run printing equipment. Married my first wife( Sue Simons) in Dec. "72". Came back to Covina to a printing vocation in "74". Bought a condo in Azusa in "77" and divorced in January of "79". Married my current wife in Februrary of "79". Still printing at The Tribune and the City of Baldwin Park. Sold the condo and bought a new home in Fontana Ca.In "80" I started my own printing business in Fontana and relocated it to Big Bear lake in "83". Couldn't seem to sell the Fontana home to move to Big Bear so I sold the printing business there.Had our first son in March of "83". Moved to Orange and rented out the fontana home. Worked for various printing companies trying to get a fair wage till "86". Went into the plumbing vocation and soon with a friend learned the trade as well as construction crafts.Finally went to work with another company (plumbing)in"88" and the bucks started rolling in! Yea!! By then we had had enough of the big city and bought a home in rural Utah. After a year of going up to work on the Utah place, we finally moved there in "90" sold the Fontana home and had a big pocket of money. Started my own plumbing/Handyman business. Did pretty good. Started a baseballcard/ collectables business with my Dad and the wife ran it. Dad passed away in "95" and by then there were 2 more boys in the kids section. Did some drag racing (still have the car) and the wife had breast cancer that same year. Treated and all gone!! Sold the card shop in late "97". We had bought a second home for income( a real sweet deal!) and my mother moved into it. She fell Ill and moved to be near my sister in Reno and we made plans to also eventually relocate there. That move never panned out and we moved into the second home for a while and rented out our intown home for a year. I drove a truck for a while out of Reno and became a construction foreman for a onetime customer and ran my plumbing business at the same time. The little town wouldn't grow and the cold winters started to get us down a bit and we started to look for a warmer area and a closer K-mart! We had to travel to Tucson to visit an ill cousin and found Cochise county. Tombstone and Sierra Vista looked real inviting. I searched the net for a job with a municipality with good pay and benifits. It was July 2001 and I had filed job apps with Cochise County as a facilities Maintenence Tech and Sierra Vista as a public works road worker. The interviews were a day apart. I didn't really want to be in the sun all the time and didn't go to the city interview. The wife and I had a great time as a mini vacation and I showed her some of the neat stuff I had found on a recon trip the prior June. We both loved the area. I felt real good about my county interview and was offered a position. We have now been there almost 5 years and really love my job. My wife took employment also with the county about a year or so later. We have a nice manufactured home on an acre in a rural area north about 15 miles from downtown Sierra Vista and 19 miles west of historic Tombstone, Arizona. We do get a little snow in winter and the summer brings the monsoon rains but boy does it smell nice after the rain! Somehow during all this, I managed to develop my music interest and spent from January 1978 till about September 1986 playing in Christian rock bands around Southern California. I was bassist and lead singer of 4 different bands during this time and had a blast.I also still have a close friend that is the drummer of the sixties band the "Electric Prunes" that reunited in 2001 and tour on a limited schedule. Remember "I had too much to dream last night" ?? t...Expand for more