“Jack graduated from Kuna High School in May of 1953. That fall he entered Brigham Young University. After school was out that next spring he decided to enter training as an Air Force Cadet. He passed the necessary tests and left for Lackland Air Force Base at San Antonio, Texas. After his class graduated from there they were sent to Stallings Air Base in North Carolina where they took their flight training. Here they were weeded out because of different reasons pertaining to flying jets. Jack received his discharge and came home in April of 1956. On September 22, 1956 he married Shirley Holliday in a wedding at her parent’s home. On May 7, 1957 their little girl Dana Jacque was born in Mercy Hospital. They moved to Klamath Falls, Oregon where Lois and Jerry were living. Jack attended school at Oregon Technical Institute in 1957 and 1958. They moved to Logan where he finished at Utah State University from 1958 to 1961. He graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering in June of 1961. After graduation he went to work for the Idaho State Highway Department in Boise. Their son Scott Jay was born while they were living in Logan, April 27, 1959. Shirley worked at the Thiokol plant, a government plant making parts for atomic weapons, while Jack attended school. Eric Jon was born February 1, 1961 in Logan.”-Beatrice Gardner Straubhaar
Excerpt from Straubhaar Family History, July 1990
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