Steven Cogburn:  

I have been pestered to do this for years. Not a big fan of social media and have been too busy these last few years to get it done. Most know I was around Gilcrest for a few years after graduation. Attended collage in Sterling at NJC then got drafted (the next to the last group drafted before it ended) in 1972. Joined the Air Force the day I reported for the draft(didn't want to crawl though rice paddies). I served in Michigan, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. After my discharge I returned to Colorado and farmed with my family for 9 years in Yuma county half way between Holyoke and Wray. I met the the love of my life in 1983 and asked her to marry me at a Broncos game in October of that year. Remember this because October has become a good and bad month in my life. We married on March 2, 1984 and spent the next year on the farm. I decided in 85 to move to town in Holyoke and went to work as a service truck driver (tires) and auto parts counterman at Stickney's Inc. until they went out of business in 1986. We moved to Denver to find work in September and went to work for Parts Inc. warehouse as an order taker. Later to manage parts stores for them in Aurora. In 87 Became Auto parts manager for Parker Automotive. (hey, you said you wanted to know my profile!) We moved back to Holyoke in 1988 and I managed a mobile home park there for a year before I went to work for Scholl Oil managing their service center. In 1996 I left Scholl's to manage the Holyoke NAPA store. They sold in 97 so I went to work rebuilding old school buses to haul hogs for D&D farms in Holyoke & Wray. In 1999 I quit D&D and went to work for the Big A store in Holyoke later to become CARQUEST when Big A sold their company. In the meantime Marcia my wife had worked as a nurses aid for nursing homes from Aurora to Holyoke until her health started to fail her. When her twin sister asked me to go to work for her husband as the manager of the l...Expand for more