David Tucker:
CLASS OF 1959
Boone High SchoolClass of 1959
Boone, IA
Graceland UniversityClass of 1961
Lamoni, IA
Boone Middle SchoolClass of 1955
Boone, IA
Bryant Elementary SchoolClass of 1953
Boone, IA
Lincoln Elementary SchoolClass of 1953
Boone, IA
David's Story
Due to circumstances beyond my control I was born in west-central Minnesota, where we lived for a few years until my dad decided to join the Army and see the world--the Invasion of the Philippines, anyway.
While he was away defending the country and having fun, mom and I lived with her parents in Clinton, Iowa. When dad came home, he decided he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in the "frozen" north so we stayed in Iowa, migrating westward to Boone.
We arrived there on my first day of kindergarten and I made it clear through to High School graduation. I went to Graceland College and Iowa State University for a pre-medical degree; then to the University of Iowa to become a Dentist. Made it that far then went home to join my father in his Dental practice.
I was going along pretty good with the new Dental practice when suddenly I got this letter that said, "Uncle Sam wants you..." They gave me all of 3 days to pack up & report for duty, which turned out not to be so bad after all. I spent 2 years in Colorado Springs, doing my dentistry there.
Back up just a bit--right between Basic Training and Colorado, I married Kathy Sweeney from Madison, Wisconsin. We couldn't have had a much nicer "honeymoon" than 2 years in the mountains at government expense. Of course, they held Viet Nam over us all the time, but it never happened. When
my time was up, we moved back to Boone, I resumed my Dental practic...Expand for more
e there, and we began a family. It's now 3 children and 5 grandkids later. All that time was ok, too. I suppose we did most of the 70s, 80s, stuff with the family that most families did back then; and I spent a good share of time doing volunteer dentistry in Haiti & the Dominican Republic, as well as several Indian Reservations in the Midwest U.S., something I had long dreamed of doing. About five years ago, all the dentistry finally got to me and I had to take a disability retirement with some serious health issues. Two years ago my wife was given a permanent "layoff" from her work at CDS.
So we've been having a nice time traveling the country to visit kids, grandkids, and other family. We spend summers at our cabin on the lake in Minnesota, fishing and visiting friends, and we also went on a Disney cruise with one of our kids and his family.
So that pretty much brings me up to today and us trying to decide what kind of "fun thing" we might do next. With the old folks (us) on Social Security, the kids all married with their own families, and each one saying, "Why don't you move over here by us," maybe that will be the subject of the next "chapter" of my story. Do we move (which way?) or do we stay here? With the economy the way it is now, though, life is kind of on hold. So we will all have to wait awhile to read the next chapter and see what life brings. But then, life is kind of like that, sometimes!
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