Richard Ohlendorf:
CLASS OF 1960
Marcus Community High SchoolClass of 1960
Marcus, IA
Richard's Story
After graduation, joined the Air force and did four years in Air Traffic Control Radar Repair. Ended up in Wisconsin, got married and worked as a TV service technician for about seven years. We had three children, two boys and a girl. Oldest son live near Phoenix and has three adopted boys , middle daughter lives next door to me in Cudahy, Wisconsin and has five kids. Four boys and my favorite grand daughter, Gabi. The youngest son is a teacher in West Allis WI and has 3 girls and a boy.
Over the years I have been in and out of electronics and worked at a factory doing x rays of welds, spacing some other work that brought me back into electronics related work. After ...Expand for more
retiring, my employer asked me to stay on and so I did. It is good therapy when you are not in the wife's way at home all day. Judy passed away October 9, 2017 and the kids have kept me busy along with having a great time working less hours and learning new things with CAD and being the "guru" to the youngsters at work.
With a bit more time on my hands, and the kids asking about my younger days, I decided to show them how a small school in Iowa looked and what we were like as kids. Ah yes, wasted youth, but not too bad a life so far. Looking forward to around 25 more years, if the body holds in there. Best thing in my attitude is "I'm going to live forever, til I die"
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