Roger Vandenbroek:  

CLASS OF 1968
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Pleasant hill, CA

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Life Here I sit at 55 wondering how I lived this long and where did the time go. After graduation I joined the army in 68 and was devistated when I got home and found my high school sweetheart Janelle Vetter class of 68 was engaged. I was briefly married to Lyn U'Ren Class of 68. Her brother Stan is still one of my best friends I am in contact with him regularly and get together to play golf whenever we can. Tried to move to the Pacific Northwest but hated the drizzle. Worked in retail and went to DVC. Then I worked as a machinist and got into Harleys and drugs. Married Nancy Harvey and had a beautiful daughter Alicia. Went to work for Cyclotron in Berkeley, Got divorced. Within a few years I decided I needed to change my ways if I didn't want to end up dead or in jail. So I took six months off and rode around, cleaned up my act and finally ended up living in Colorado at 9,000 ft. working as a Materials Manager for the building materials division of a ready mix company down in Colorado Springs. I brought my ex-wife and daughter out to get Alicia out of the California school system. I bought a house and then split up with Nancy again. I moved farther out of Woodland Park and Married Barbara Edler. The economy went in the toilet, the division I was working for was closed ...Expand for more
and Barbara died in a motorcycle accident. I moved to San Diego and went to work for a reinforcing steel company in 1987, took up golf. The company opened an office in Hayward so I tried coming back to the Bay Area in 1988 but found it had changed considerably since I left. So I moved back to San Diego with a brief stop in Orange County (I don't know how anybody can live in the L.A. area.) I met and married a Londoner, Anita (Nikki) Tepper in 1991. She came complete with two grown children Jack and Sharon, and I was truly happy for the first time. I quit my job and went to work for myself in 1992 and am still self employed. Sharon died of Lukemia in 1997. Nikki died of Adenocarcinoma in 2001. I was truly blessed to find happiness again and on July 9th of this year I married Denise Barnhart. She also came complete with two children Alex 20,and Peter 19. Alicia is living in Arlington, Texas and teaches 4th grade. Jack is living in Masapequa, New York and is an Iron Worked Alex is living in Phoenix, Arizona and works for a concrete cutting company. Peter is living at home and works for SDSU. If you don't find me at home you will find me on the golf course trying to break into the 70's and stay there. If you have read all this let me know who you are and what you're up to.
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