After my grandpa, Don Fischer found his 20 year old brother dead with a broken neck, his life changed forever. Although my Grandpa had a tough childhood, he grew up to be a hard working, happily married man. Donald Fischer was born in a farm house 6 miles outside of Ottawa, on November 3, 1935. His parents were Emma and Louis Fischer. His siblings were Bob, Phyllis, and Paulene. He worked his first field when he was seven, he used only horse drawn implements. As well as milked their dairy cows. He lived on 5 different farms across Franklin County. He went to grade school in Princeton, before that he went to a one room school house in Princeton. He went to high school at Ottawa High School. He said “My first day of school all of …show more content…
They have been married for almost 54 years. After leaving the Army he drove a truck for Pepsi. He said “One morning when I was driving it was very foggy and I couldn’t see the train tracks, as a was driving on them a train hit me and smashed the passenger side of the truck. It was inches from smashing me, I still to this day believe that the reason I didn’t die that day was because I went back and gave your grandma a second kiss before I left to go do my route.” In 1966 he started working at Hercules Power Plant, where he made rocket motors for the Vietnam war until 1970. He then went and worked at Ottawa Power Plant as a power plant operator, he retired in 1999. He then came out of retirement in 2000 and worked as the bailiff for the city of Ottawa, then retired again at the end of 2000. Don’s first child, Emily, was born in 1963. Then his next, Dawn, who was born in 1966. Then the first boy, Dan, was born in 1967. Next John was born in 1968. Finally Ryan, my dad was born in 1973. He now has twelve grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and two more on the way.
In 83 years my grandpa has lived a hard working, rewarding life. Through determination he went from having to earn everything he got, to a wealthy, retired
He was raised with his parents in Union Township, Union County. His father’s name was Arthur Lange Sr. and his mother was Judy (née Caprio). His father was a contractor who installs antennas for Television. Lange has a sister named Stacy and she is a fashion designer.
Dennis Chavez was born in New Mexico on April 1888 in Los Chavez, Valencia County,. His parents were David and Paz(Sanchez).Dennis had seven brothers and sisters. He started going to public schools when he was. Only as an 8th grader he had to start working because of financial issues in the household. He started working as a grocery store clerk in his town.
This is a passage about one of the first basketball players to ever set foot on a basketball court. He was a great hero during the Civil Rights Movement. His name was a great inspiration to African Americans all over the U.S. during the movement. He was born on March 31, 1923 in a town that most of you are probably familiar with, Oakland, California.
Ronald Reagan was one of the best presidents of the United States and was known for good reasons, this essay will tell you about him and his accomplishments. Ronald reagan was born on February, 6th, 1911 in Tampico Illinois. His parents John Edward Reagan and Nelle Wilson Reagan. When Ronald Reagan was in school he was an athlete and the student body president he graduated from dixon high school and as a summer job he got a job as a lifeguard and has said to have saved over 70 people from drowning. Ronald Reagan served as the governor of California for two years and was part of the republican party.
He married my mother, Kristen Zuco, on October 10 of 1990. They had four children; Isabella, Sienna , Milana and Talia. As the most significant event in his lifetime my father choose the Challenger Disaster. The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster was a horrible accident that occurred on January 28 of 1986 at The Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
By the age of six he was working, dusting cotton of the Brannon Mill floor. At the age of three the family moved to West Greenville where he grew
Willie Nelson is, without question, one of the most influential musicians of his time. He has left an indelible mark on not only his own genre, but music in general. His unique sound, longevity as an artist, and talent as a songwriter have all combined to make him a popular singer even today. Willie Nelson was born in 1933, amidst the throes of the Great Depression, to his mother Myrle and his father Ira. Nelson’s birthplace was the miniscule farming town of Abbott, Texas, which today holds a population of roughly three-hundred people.
Percy L. Julian was one of the greatest scientific minds that ever lived. He made many medical advances in history that help us today. Even though he was denied high school education, he was still able to learn at an astonishing rate. He helped contribute to many different and huge medical advances and without those the world would be a very different place. Thanks to him we can live knowing that we will be able to live to be healthy and old into our later years.
Donald Harvey, also known as "the angel of death" would have been considered, by many people, the most prolific serial killer in American history. Although he claims to have killed 87 people, official estimates would show that he killed from a range of 36-57 people. Harvey started his killings at the Marymount Hospital located in London, Kentucky from may 1970 to March 1971. The Marymount Hospital was not the only hospital in which Donald Harvey killed patients. In order to make sure that his killings were not revealed it was noted that Donald Harvey would often use different methods to kill his victims.
Nolan Ryan was a very popular athlete. Yet, lots of people don’t know much about him. Though Nolan Ryan is one of the most iconic baseball figures, many people don’t know about his early life, his career in the MLB, and how he has impacted baseball today. Nolan Ryan was born on January 31, 1947. His parents are Lynn Nolan Ryan Sr. and Martha Lee Hancock Ryan.
David Venable bio David Venable is an American Television personality who is best known for hosting the QVC show called In the Kitchen. She is active in the industry since 1993. According to David Venable bio, he holds an American nationality and he belongs to white ethnicity. He is also known for selling over a half million copies of his cookbooks which consists of 150 top recipes for yummy foods.
He was the youngest born of 5 children. He ended up only living there for a short amount of time because his father left them. Then he moved to Pasadena, California. His family was very poor. They lived in a under average house in a neighborhood.
Jimmy and his wife had three boys and one girl. In 1953 Jimmy’s father died and the farm fell into disarray. Jimmy decided to move his family back to Georgia to take care of his mom and the farm. While back in Georgia Jimmy started to be active in community politics. He was awarded a seat on the Sumter County Board of Education and eventually became its chairman.
Country Singer Alan Jackson was born in Newman, Georgia (rural Georgia) on October 17, 1958. He got discovered for his debut album “here in the real world” (1990). He is really famous because he won a Grammy Award for his song commemorating the 9/11 terror attacks “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning”. When he was younger, Alan lived with his parents and 4 older sisters. He married his high school sweetheart “Denise”.
My grandpa is a hard working guy and never gives up on anything he sets his mind to do. Moving to autonomy v. shame and doubt, I asked him what his greatest achievements were and he told me, “Being the director of Watkins Health Center I guess. I didn’t know where I was going to work so I went to business school to get a good job like that. Finishing my masters degree and that let me be qualified candidate for the job.”.