Arnold Silva:
CLASS OF 1981
King High SchoolClass of 1981
Kingsville, TX
Mt. Miguel High SchoolClass of 1979
Spring valley, CA
Plaza Junior High SchoolClass of 1976
Virginia beach, VA
Vancouver High SchoolClass of 1956
Vancouver, WA
Arnold's Story
Y'all probably remeber me as Arnie Ridley. When I first moved to Kingsville my real last name (Silva)caused a lot of problems for me. Times were different then.
After high school, I did like a lot of other people did; Got a job in the oil field.
I worked for a couple of drilling companies before the crunch hit and the oil field slowed to a hault.
I was lucky enough to get hired on with Conoco and worked for them all over South Texas before being transferred to Odessa, then unfortunately was laid off and ended up coming back to Kingsville.
Two days after returning home I met Priscilla Buentello and 5 years later she became Priscilla Silva. We've been maried for 20 years and have one daughter who is 12 years old now.
I went back to school shortly after me...Expand for more
eting my future wife and became a machinist and have been working for a company called H B Turbo.
I started as the janitor 24 years ago and have worked my way up to upper management as the Sr. Q.A. officer and Sales support as well as inside engineering on all turbine parts that we produce.
I still make the drive to Corpus every day to go to work...Man that gets old real fast.
As of march 10th 2009, I've been out of commission (for 6 weeks) due to a quadruple by pass.
Recovering well and will be back to work in a couple of more weeks.
It's funny how we think that these things will never happen to us, but still I have to say, all in all, I've been blessed over the years and I am thankfull every day, for every day, that I have with my family and friends.
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