After got out of the service I came back home to Findlay and started looking for a job. I found a job and Dow chemical here in Findlay. I worked a year’s at Dow chemical before they had a big cut back.

After that I went to Diffco, a company that made it differentials. I worked in their machine shop. I was making wheels for mining cars.

I figured it out one time. In a single day I lifted 11,000lbs. My shoulders got big, my arms got big, and my legs got big. I was a strong guy. I could take 250 lbs. and throw it on my shoulders and think nothing of it. This is what I had done all my life from the time I was growing up. I’ve always done heavy physical stuff.

Back to working at Diffco, I worked there for six years before they had a cutback in close their doors. They quit making mining car wheels.

After I left Diffco, I was unemployed for about a year and half. Then I finally got in to Midwest Stamping in Bowling Green. I’ve worked a tow motor; I setup welders and did all the handiwork. I spent fifteen years there before they closed their doors. Then, I went on disability. That was in 1999.

When I went on disability my wife started working as a driver for the mill site out of Lima. She worked as a substitute driver. Then she went from being a driver to being a technician. That’s when she started working here at the Hancock county senior center and working as a mill site technician. She started working as the custodian here at the senior center.

In the mornings she would come in here into the custodial work then go to the technician work out at the mill site in the afternoons.

In about 2004 she became deathly sick. She started to have some heart problems. Back in 2001 she had a gastric bypass done. While she was having that time I worked here it the senior center in her place. We always work together as a team. Which she couldn’t do I would fill in for her.