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MMM January 2001 |
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| Name: Don K | ||
| Approx Age: 60ish | ||
| Nationality: Minnesotan | ||
| This page updated May 2008 | ||
| Don was my first supervisor at Honeywell. It took me a while to absorb him completely. Easy to laugh and basically
a cheerful, enthusiastic, optimistic soul. Come break time, out would whip a paperback book; usually science fiction or western or murder mystery.
And precisely at the end of the break away it would go. Actually, he would spend most of the workday organizing sport games - trying to
put together a team to play some other one. Bob Storlie wrote me (June '71) when I was in Fiji: "Well, the Klyberg Cavalcade of Sports is now in full swing
with buckets on Tues, softball on Wed and Volleyball on Thurs". When I left for Fiji he would faithfully keep me informed of the latest teams' results.
Lost an eye in a motorcycle accident (got $10,000 - lawyer got third of it). He actually believed, in the 60's anyway, that professional wrestling was real. Convinced me and Gail to go along once. Nice seats close up, but apparently they weren't ours and we settled further back only to be kicked out again to even cheaper seats. And from there he threw peaches at the wrestlers. Highlight (more lowlight) - Tried to outrun a cop car and ended up with 7 cars chasing him. Why? because he had lost his license after a couple other violations. When he couldn't find work anymore in the Cities (lost his Honeywell job in the Ordnance division) they moved back to Dawson where he owned a Drive-in for $6100 and when it failed he turned it into a used car lot (buying cars for $58 and selling them for $20). He had hoped that Standard Oil would buy it for a station. He once gave a '64 Chevy and $10 for his malamute dog, Zak. Same year, 1974, he gave a gave a car as down payment for a house. Always a schemer, always a dreamer and always the latest scheme would fail. In 1974 he was looking at gumball machines costing $15 and 5500 gumballs for $11. He worked at Moduline, a block & tile place and Larsen's Tiling and had a paper route. When we returned to MN in 1975 we moved to Dawson and rented a house behind him. He was working part-time for Modulite, wasn't selling any cars and owned a couple houses that he rented out. I painted one them that summer. Shelby finally gave up on him and got a divorce that year just before we moved back to NZ. He bought plots in nearby towns on the cheap and wanted to buy a place on a lake and set up a summer camp. Just couldn't get any friends to come in as an invester. He also worked for another used car place in Granite Falls, plus in the Dawson bowling alley. He ran Dawson sofball league making a few bucks on that. 1978-1988 he worked at Wonder Bread in Mpls and played lots of volleyball and started going on trips. Jamaica, Bahamas, Dom Rep, Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Mexico. Mazatlan Mexico is hi favorite. Quit the job in 1988 and has been fixing, repairing and renting rental prop ever since. Married in 1997 to Annette. Bought a home in Coon Rapids mn in 1995. | ||
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