Richard (Dick) Creamer:
CLASS OF 1964
Robert E. Lee High SchoolClass of 1964
Jacksonville, FL
Southern Illinois UniversityClass of 1980
Carbondale, IL
Cascade High SchoolClass of 1964
Turner, OR
Twin Falls High SchoolClass of 1964
Twin falls, ID
Filer High SchoolClass of 1964
Filer, ID
Richard (Dick)'s Story
After coming home from graduation and finding my bags on the front step (Mom hates it when I tell people that) I enlisted in the U.S. Navy and trained as an Aviation Electronics Tech. I am one of the few Sailors that actually got to see the world. I was always happy to get home; a couple of times I was happy to get home alive. A couple of times I was allowed to take my family, living in Japan; and then a tour on one of the tiny islands in the Azores. I married my wife, the former Judy Ann Wise in Milton, FL in 1967. Forty-seven years later, we are back in Milton. During my Navy career, taking college courses whenever and wherever I could, I completed my BA in 1980 from Southern Illinois and in 1986, an MA from Central Michigan.
I retired from the Navy a...Expand for more
fter twenty years, worked in Los Angeles for five years at a defense contractor, then retired again after twenty years in Civil Service. I could never get that retirement thing down pat. My Civil Service Program Manager asked me back as a consultant on a one-year contract to help field a new hardware and software update on the avionics system I was working on when I left. That was almost seven years and three updates ago. I have 16 months to go on my current contract - then I'm gone. My wife says I'll quit right after my funeral.
It has been a great adventure. I admit I could have been a better husband and father, but I still have a place at the dinner table; my son and daughter still speak to me; and my grandkids think I hung the moon. I'm good to go...
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