Vicky Elliott:  

Charles Ray Elliott and I married in March 69. We lived in Commerce and went to ETSU. Chas worked at Jim Clark's mostly and I worked as a hairstylist. I graduated in 72 with a B.A. Chas got his Master's at the same time. That summer he went into the Air Force as a 1st Lt. and we were assigned to Fort Worth. Whhoop de doo! Big far-away move! We were stationed at Carswell AFB for 3 years, where I worked as a hair stylist and we had our first child, Tracey, who is 35 now, had a new baby Kaden in April 09. Yay!! As it turns out, we needed the close move to Ft. Worth to help cut the family apron strings slowly, because on every other assignment we were always far away and I missed Texas and my family so much. We have lived in Maine, Alabama and Nebraska, where son Sean was born. He is a full time editor for Fox News 31 in Denver. Single. No kids. From Neb we moved on to California, Virginia, England, Germany, Hawaii, and now Monument, CO, which is just above Colorado Springs. Chas retired after 22 yrs as a Lt Colonel, and we have lived here since 1994. We all loved the military life except for being so far from family and friends. We got to travel all over Europe, Greece, and Egypt. We all love Colorado. We have 2 dogs and 4 cats. We like to ski and hike, but have had to sideline these while middle to old age infirmities in shoulders and hips heal ( hopefully!) We have always kept scuba diving and have been to some wonderful and awe inspiring depths and hope we never have to stop. Nothing hurts in negative bouyancy!! In 1997 we bought a small office supply store in our s...Expand for more