Benjamin Alexander:
CLASS OF 1964
Cooper High SchoolClass of 1964
Abilene, TX
Benjamin's Story
After more or less completing a year at McMurry I enlisted in the Marine Corps, spent two years in Vietnam and one in the Caribbean and North Carolina as a machinegun/rocket instructor.
After completing my enlistment, I worked for Southwestern Bell in Midland. Being young and quickly bored with a desk job, I hired on with a ranch in San Marcos where, along with doing regular cowboy stuff I drove cattle from from Texas to California and back.
Although interesting jobs for a young person, I realized that these are not ones on which to base a life. So I returned to college at McMurry where I met my future wife. We married in Denver in 1975, bought a home and se...Expand for more
ttled down.
I finished college shortly thereafter, and was hired by the Department of Justice as a Special Agent. We worked in Denver for eight years and were transferred to Honolulu where we worked Asian organized crime, anti-drug, intelligence, and special operations. In 1997 we transferred to the Los Angeles area, working intelligence operations in various parts of the world.
We retired in 2002, moved back to Denver, then back to California, and finally, in 2011, settled in Austin. My wife became ill shortly thereafter and passed in 2016. After a couple of years there, becoming a vegetable, I sold our home, bought some land by Hawley and built my new home.
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