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Oh my gosh, where do I start. Karl and I married February of our senior year, which means we just celebrated our “50th” anniversary. After being married four years we had the opportunity to move to Mainz, Germany with Karl's employment for Sperry Univac. After spending a year there and traveling to England, Holland, Switzerland, France, and Austria we moved back to Roy, Utah and our first brand new home.
In 1972 we moved to Willard, Utah buying and old Victorian styled home and proceeded to live in it while doing all the remodeling ourselves. At the same time I went to Weber State College's Technical College where I obtained my cosmetology license. We built a salon in our home for the purpose of me being home for our children while they were being raised.
In 1977 we relocated to North Ogden, Utah. And once again I owned and operated a salon from our home. We only moved once while in North Ogden and spent a total of 22 year there. With our second move I changed careers going to work for Standard Beauty Supply, calling on salon's from Logan to Provo. I did this for 7 years at which time I had three sales people under my supervision.
In 1989 Karl once again was offered a job opportunity in Okinawa, Japan while working for Hill Air Force Base. We spent 2 years there, which was an unbelievable experience.
Returning back to our home in North Ogden and wanting a career change I went back to school and opened a business doing bookkeeping for small businesses. It was during this time that I was offer an position to become a mortgage loan officer. For the pass sixteen years this has been my focus. During this time I owned and operated Fidelity First Financial, employing 25 loan originators.
We have had 5 children, 4 boys and one girl. Our third son was run over in our driveway at the age of 14 months and died. We now have 10 grandchildren and in February 2011 had our first great-grandson.
I became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 4 years after marring and have cherished every moment of involvement.
My passions are grandchildren, (of course), genealogy, gardening, decorating, water color painting, and drama.
It has been my privileged and honor to have served on every reunion planning committee since we graduated.
As you all know me by Linda Fowler, my real last name is Fitzgerald. When I was 11 years old my mother told me that my step-father was not my biological father. In my early 20's I found my father in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was truly an amazing experience to meet him, my uncle and grandparents for the first time.
This past couple of years Karl and I were called as directors for the West Council to write and direct a portion of the musical production which the LDS church produced and performed at WSU football stadium in July of 2010 entitled “Arise.” There were approximately 4,800+ youth from the ages of 14-18 years old and they performed before and audience of 21,500 + the largest attendance the University has seen to date. It was an incredible undertaking and will be lodged in our hearts forever.
