Charles (Chuck) Nelson:  

Life After graduation, I attended San Jose City College and San Jose State Univ. I then entered the US Air Force as an aviation cadet resulting in being commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant and rated as a navigator. I went onto Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi to attend an Electronic Warfare Officer school where I also met my future wife, Jody. She was a college student nearby. We married in Chicago in 1961. After graduation from Keesler AFB, I was stationed at Shaw AFB, SC for 4 years. After 7 years in the AF and two children, my wife and I decided leave the AF and return to San Jose where I became an agent in 1965 with New York Life Insurance Company. We had our third and last child, a son, Scott, in 1969. He was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis in 1970 and later our youngest daughter Kim was also diagnosed with CF. Scott died at age 21 in 1990 and Kim underwent a double lung transplant(TX) at age 33. She has since married, bought a home near us and has a LIFE. That unfortunately only lasted 6 years for Kim died peacefully surrounded by friends and family at Stanford Hospital ICU Oct 26, 2004. She struggled bravely with many close calls. We feel fortunate to have had her for 40 years and that she was able to do so very much with her life. She met Michael Piscitello in 1993 and they married one year after TX. After marriage, they both changed their names to Nelson-Piscitello. About 350 attended the celebration of her life gathering November ...Expand for more