Vern Tucker:
Born: December 1938
Birthplace: Seattle, Washington
Mother: Louise Parrington
Education: Clermont High school
College of San Mateo for one year, then Oregon State University
Military: 6 months in ‘61 and ‘62 during the crisis of Berlin.
Occupation: Title insurance industry, insured real estate transactions. Retired in 2004 after 44 years of service. Title insurance and trust company Steward Title of California. Retired as vice president.
Marriage: Nancy Tucker October 6, 1962.
Kids: Mary-Ann and Susan.


My first four years were in Seattle. Then we went to southern California because my parents grew up during the depression. That was in the thirties and just before I was born, my father had been practicing for his father who was practicing law. And he would have fees paid and had a piano warehouse and piano work and had dental work done, but nothing would put the food on the table.

So, he finally landed a job with the securities exchange commission. And he was based out of Seattle at that point. Then they transferred him to Southern California. That was in 1943, when I spent two years in Southern California. I was four at that point.

While we were living in Seattle, I vaguely remember taking trips some place to Eastern Washington with my dad, getting carsick and throwing up on my mother’s neck.

In southern California, I was in kindergarten and first grade. I don’t remember too much about it. I do remember that I repeated the first grade when I got up to San Carlos.

At recess, the swings were really busy. I remember one day, I went out and didn’t go back to class because I wanted to swing. And they caught me and brought me back to the principal’s office. And, who was there? My brother, who was six years older than me. I had no idea what he did, but as punishment we were both stuck in the principal’s smelly bathroom. I have no idea how long we stayed there.

Then we moved to San Carlos in the summer of ’45. I went through all of grade school and high school in San Carlos. Back then it was a small town, probably about 7,000. If you went downtown, all of the merchants knew all of the kids.