Bill Little:
CLASS OF 1969
West High SchoolClass of 1969
Bremerton, WA
Pacific Lutheran UniversityClass of 1973
Tacoma, WA
Olympic CollegeClass of 1971
Bremerton, WA
East High SchoolClass of 1969
Bremerton, WA
Bill's Story
I"M WAY past due getting this down in writing....
After West and Olympic I graduated from PLU with a degree in Philosophy and an officer's commission in the USAF. I served 5 1/2 years in Warner Robins, Ga and Kadena Okinawa as an aircraft maintenance officer. The biggest highlights were managing upgrades to the B-52 and KC-135 aircraft in Georgia and being chosen as the youngest Maintenance Supervisor on the SR-71 spy plane in Okinawa. I then parlayed that into a career in aerospace, first at General Dynamics in San Diego on the Tomahawk cruise missile program and then Northrop Grumman near Los Angeles on the B-2 Bomber and other advanced development programs.
I left Northrop Grumman in 1998 and returned to Silverdale to help Mom take care of Dad who had Alzheimer's disease and to work in downtown Seattle as a contractor to Federal Occupational Health, managing their computer support help desk and software development activities.
After my dad died from complications from Alzheimer's disease in January 2008, I moved back to CA. I live in Lancaster and work in Palmdale, back at Northrop Grumman on the B-2 modernization program as manager, Master Planning and Scheduling. Lancaster is about 40 miles due Nor...Expand for more
th of Los Angeles, but a world away in lifestyle. Even with about 400K people between the two towns it seems about the same size as Bremerton/Silverdale. Being in the high desert, winters are about the same as Bremerton, minus 90% of the rain, but summers are hot (90-110 degrees) and the wind blows almost every day, something I am not sure I'll ever like.
I married out of college to my first wife, Joyce, then remarried when living in San Diego to my current love of 31 years, Peggy. It was a package deal - she and her two beautiful daughters Cheryl and Ericka. We lost Cheryl to cancer in Feb. 2011. She was 44. Peg has been very ill the last several years so it has been nice living in a warmer and drier climate. I miss being close to the beach but can get there in a little over an hour, about the same it takes to get to downtown LA... as long as I avoid rush hour.
I miss the Northwest and rent out my house in Silverdale with plans to move back after I retire in a few years. I lucked into the world's best renter which has made being an absentee landlord a lot easier.
I am involved with several social groups, as an officer in the Palmdale Gem and Mineral Society and with the USO through Northrop Grumman.
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