Louis Ortega:
CLASS OF 1965
Harlingen High SchoolClass of 1965
Harlingen, TX
Louis's Story
Pilot, Boeing 757 and 767. After St Anthony's went to minor seminary for 3 three yrs, then good ol' HHS. Then Texas A
& M, (unproductive) one year,then USAF for 4 yrs. One of those was in training, 2 in England (yea!) and one in Alaska (not so yea). Thereafter returned to the Valley and went to Pan Am to finish. On the first day I met the love of my life, Ana, my wife of 38 years. We ended up having 4 kiddos, one engineer, one USAF Lt, one nurse and one in grad school on a National Science Foundation scholarship, complete with stipend (yea!). I became a Navy pilot and served aboard USS Nimitz, East Coast, West Coast, Pacific and European thea...Expand for more
ters, with extensive time in England and Japan. After retiring from the Navy, I got hired by UPS and have been flying for them since then. Capt. on Airbus and the aforementioned Boeings. And now the end of flying is near. At the end of this month I will retire from flying for good (FAA says 65 is it). I feel like the book is ending but there's more I want to write...
I never signed on to classmates so I don't know who it was that was kind enough to send me Christmas greetings and say hello etc., but I can tell you that after all these years you can't imagine what that means to me so thank you sooo much.
My best wishes to everyone and God Bless...
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