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He met his wife, Shirley, at the Wahpeton Get Acquainted Dance. They were together just shy of 64 years.
In 1957 they moved to the Seattle area. He worked in auto mechanics for a few years and then joined the Seattle Iron Workers Union. He was part of constructing the Space Needle and the floating bridges — Interstate 90, 520 and the Hood Canal bridges. He then became an electrician for the I.B.E.W. Local 46 Union, where he received his 55-year gold pin for membership.
They lived in the house they built in Centralia for 31 years.
He was widowed in 2015. He has a son and daughter, six grandchildren, and one great-grandson.
