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After High School I worked in retail sales. I worked for Candy Carlson's mom for a while. I got married in 1972 and moved all the way to Salt Lake City for the first 2 years of our marriage. Then we bought the old farm house three houses south of where I grew up and we've lived there ever since. "Big Time World Traveler" We have five wonderful children and nine grandchildren. Melissa, my only daughter and Joe have three girls and one boy. Chris and Amy have two boys and a girl. Jeff and Ashly, Casey and Brittney each have a dog and Tyler has two girls. They are the light of my life. My favorite days are Grandma Sleepovers.
My children all went to Midvale Middle School and Hillcrest High. They hated it when I knew and or had a teacher that they had.
In about 1978 I meet Glenn Short, who happened to be Bob McClung's father-in-law and lived in our ward. He was an auctioneer. He asked me to work an auction for him. Then we went to Auctioneer School in 1984 and I guess the rest is history. I've been calling auctions for 35 years now and still love it.
We have basically retired from auctioning estates, school surplus and other general auctions. We closed our auction house and now only do Storage Auctions. If you have ever seen "Storage Wars", well that's what we do all the time. We open up the units that have become delinquent and offer (auction) the entire contents of the unit. No they are not all filled with gold and treasures. But some units have actually had gold ingots, coins, jewelry, cars, boats, urns with ashes and other fun treasures. Lots of people make their living buying and selling items from the storage units. We love the people and still have lots of fun working.
My Husband Ken worked in construction for several years. Then Mr. Short helped him get on at the Utah State Prison, where he worked for 20 years.
We haven't been big world travelers, but have enjoyed a few amazing trips. My dear friend Kathryn Klitgaard and her husband Rob shared a trip to China in 2001 and a trip to Greece in 2017. Janice Lund and her husband Lynn were on the Greece trip also. What a joy to share such wonderful experiences with dear friends.