Emery Smith II
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Born in Tulare, Tulare County, CA. An agricultural community, my father Emery worked at a cotton gin coop and a cattle feedlot. We lived on the feedlot for several years until moving in 1962 after the birth of my youngest brother and sister, fraternal twins.
We moved to Sacramento, buying the only family home we ever had.
Soon after, we moved to Grants Pass, OR, then Ely, NV, then Ft Jones, CA.
In 1966, we moved to Ashland, OR. I lived there through my junior high and senior high school years until after graduation in June, 1970. I met my wife in typing class in my senior year.
That June, I rode my father's Honda 450 from Ashland down the Coast on Highway One to Santa Cruz, CA.
Jobs were hard to find, so I joined the Navy in January, 1971. After bootcamp in San Diego, CA, I received A School training in Millington, TN as an AZ - Aviation Maintenance Administrationman. Receiving shore duty orders, I moved to NAS Alameda and to VAQ-130, an A-3 training squadron. I was there until the squadron was decommissioned and transferred to Whidbey Island, WA. The squadron recommissioned as an EA-6B squadron there but I was discharged from active duty and to a new Reserve Transport Squadron, VR-55, where I became aircrew qualified, first as a flight attendant, then a loadmaster. I separated in Spring, 1978.
I was a college student at Cabrillo College, from 1975 to 1977 when I transferred to College Eight, UCSC. In Spring, 1978, I left school to join my father, Emery H Smith Sr, in a family building materials business.
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