January 28, 2014
TKC: “What motivated you to ring bells for the Salvation Army?”
“To help other kids that needed help and also donations for the kids and also to help the parents because people are so homeless. They need homes and that’s what I’m here for.”
TKC: What is a theme in your life that is important to you?
“Family.”
TKC: Do you have a family yourself?
“I’ve got four children, all grown, and five-well, let’s see. No, we are up to eight grandchildren now. I say that because my one son has three foster children and so that changes real quick.”
TKC: How would you say having foster grandchildren affects you? Is it a positive thing?
“Oh yeah, it’s a good thing. These kids haven’t done anything to deserve their fate. One little girl was in a hotel and her mother walked out on her. She was 12 years old.”
TKC: What is your relationship to Kirkwood?
“You know, it’s a suburb of St. Louis, and I’m a city boy from St. Louis. Kirkwood/ Webster, the old time suburbs around here that we occasionally ventured out to play football and basketball and whip up on in Tennis.
TKC: How did you end up working here at the train station?
“Well my career was that of a professional engineer that dealt with transportation: railroad and waterways so when I retired a couple years okay, I’m looking around saying what am I going to do with my time, and wound up working here and at the Transportation Museum. It stays in the family you know, 45 years dealing with railroads and waterways.”
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