Jack Jones:  

CLASS OF 1976
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Mariposa, CA

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I live in Gilbert, Az (a suburb of Phoenix). I left the Sierras for southern California in the late 80's and then left San Diego for Phoenix in the late 90's and have been here ever since... I have 5 kids if you count my 12 year old stepdaughter Skylar who's actually alot like me so we fight alot... I'm realizing that trying to prevent her from making some of the mistakes that I made is alot like putting a milk bucket under a bull, futile... My oldest son Chris is 30, my middle son Colin is 25, my youngest son Casey just turned in March and my only natural daughter Calla is 7. My oldest son made me a grandfather 4 months after my only daughter was born. His name is Christopher Michael Jones Jr. and now he has a little brother named Sanden, my second grandson. I'm in heavy civil construction which I guess I've sort of been in my entire life thanks to growing up in a family business started by my grandfather and still run by my uncle and cousins. As some of you are aware I've had episodes where I've done other things ranging from setting chokers in the logging woods for several years to being an animal packer and trail worker for Nat'l Park Service for several years as well, but have always gravitated back to the original theme that involves tractors rather than horses and mules. Isn't evolution just wonderful... (I'm kidding...) I've been married twice and divorced twice. My first wife was a Paiute indian girl from the Sierra Nevadas named Lisa Ann and my second wife was a hairdresser from Southern California named Linda Fay. I guess I'm into variety and disfunction in combination with romance and passion, who really knows, I sure as hell don't... My first relationship involving marriage lasted almost 20 years and my second only about 7 so I guess I lost my touch there for a bit... My first 2 children are from my first relationship and my second 2 are from the relationshipt that I am currently in. No baby hairdressers I guess... While I'm not married at the moment and don't think I want to do that again, I guess ironically, I might as well be. We've b...Expand for more
een together for 10 years now and have two children together. My soulmates' name is Kathy Ann. She's much stronger and smarter than I am and the fact that she pretends otherwise only serves to confirm it. She grew up in New Jersey and is a dentist with her own practice here in Gilbert. She also makes beautiful babies as did Lisa Ann, or maybe I'm just subjective cuz they're mine... you think?... hmmm An east coast city girl and a west coast mountain boy... who'd a thunk it... I've gone from being one of the biggest party animals known to man to having spent 6 years very recently teaching Sunday School for kids at a gigantic church here in Mesa, Az. Did I mention that my favorite word in the english language is "irony"... I think about Yosemite, ElPortal, Midpines and Mariposa an awful lot it seems and sometimes can be very sentimental and nostalgic about it although it really seems like another life to me now, almost surreal in a sense I guess. I think as I'm getting older my clarity and objectivity of memory for the most part is very subjective and sometimes nonexistent. I will never as long as I live forget Yosemite and the wonderful and magical experience of growing up there and spending many years of my adult life working there as well... it truly is a magical and amazing canyon... Well I really don't know what else to say for now but that this is a wonderful little time machine... this classmates.com. I'm also on facebook as well and have more photos and information there,(Kathy set it up for me as I'm really not nearly as computer literate as she is...). I guess I should add an update as I'm selling motorcycles at Hacienda Harley Davidson in Scottsdale Arizona now and out of construction. The economy and job market for what I was doing played out a bit and in the interim I discovered another opportunity and I enjoy it. Lots of fun and great folks. I'm blown away by people in my past reaching out to me again after all this time... I love it... I love all of it and I love each and everyone of you as well... Miracles... Take care and god bless...
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