gary grear:
CLASS OF 1964
Rancho Alamitos High SchoolClass of 1964
Garden grove, CA
gary's Story
Wow, 50 years is a long time! But here goes, I enlisted in he Air Force after one semester at Fullerton JC and married Linda Howell (class of 65 La Quinta) in Dec 1965. We started our 49 year journey in Arizona at Williams Air Force Base (no longer exist) and returned to Orange county in 1969 when I returned to college graduating from Cal State Long Beach in 1973. In Jan 1974 I began my career with Ford Motor Company in Richmond Virginia. We drove from Huntington Beach to Richmond with our 2 year old son David during the first oil embargo (what an experience). During our 17 years with Ford we moved from Richmond to Louisville (where Linda received her degree from U of L) on to Detroit and finally Boston where we left Ford and returned to SoCal where I was a general manag...Expand for more
er at several dealerships (mostly Ford) in the Los Angeles area until 2012. Our automotive experience (Linda was also a Ford employee, retired, currently working as Executive Assistant to the National Sales Manager, Hyundai Motor America) afforded us the opportunity to travel all over the world including Spain, Portugal, Yugoslavia Italy, France, Hong Kong and many others. We have one son, two grand sons and a new granddaughter due in May. We will be celebrating our 49th anniversary this year with a trip to Venice, Italy and a cruise thru the Greek Isles with our oldest and dearest friends who we have known for 48 years. We now live in Palm Springs where Linda and I first started dating during spring break 1965..
In other words life has been good and we have been blessed!
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