Charlie & Diane Vanderford
56. Charles Robert12 Vanderford (Charles Homer11, William Austin10, John Austin9, Austin Comer8, William7, John6, Richard5, Charles4, George Paul3, Michael Paul2, Paul1) was born in Elgin, IL February 10, 1943.
He married Diane Martha Reimer in Elgin, IL, September 11, 1965. Diane was born in Elgin, IL September 1, 1945. Diane is the daughter of Wilmer Henry Reimer and Lillian Berdine Engebretson.
He graduated from high school in Elgin, IL, June 1961. School: Elgin High School. Charles graduated in Carbondale, IL, June 1967. Institution: Southern Ilinois University. Charlie graduated from Elgin High School in Elgin, IL in 1961. He graduated from Southern Illinois University in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in Business Management. After working for a year in Chicago with Standard Oil Company's sales management training program, Charlie joined the United States Air Force in 1968. As a USAF pilot, he flew the F-4 Phantom in Iceland and Germany, and was an instructor pilot in several training aircraft (T-37, T-38, T-39, etc.) Charlie completed 20 years of military service and "retired" as a Lieutenant Colonel in October 31, 1988 at MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL. He flew DC-9s and MD-80s as a commercial airline pilot for Midway Airlines until that company went bankrupt in 1991. Beginning in 1992, Charlie worked as the Director of Graduate Enrollment Analysis in the Graduate School of the University of South Florida in Tampa until his retirement in December 2004. Charlie and Diane reside in The Villages, Florida, a multi-golf course retirement community about 50 miles north of Orlando, Florida.
Charles Robert Vanderford and Diane Martha Reimer had the following children:
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Douglas Scott13 Vanderford was born January 10, 1971.
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Cara Michelle Vanderford was born in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, TX May 13, 1974. She
married Joshua James Good in Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL, August 14, 1999. Joshua was born in Hollywood, FL
May 2, 1975. (See Joshua James Good for the continuation of this line.) Cara graduated from Bloomingdale
High School in Valrico, FL (near Tampa) in 1992. She graduated with honors from Hillsborough Community College in 1994 where she was
Vice-President of the Honor Society. Cara graduated with honors from the University of South Florida in Tampa in December 1996 with a
bachelor's degree in Women's Studies. She graduated from a special medical school in Miami as a licensed practical Mid Wife in April 2000.
Cara married Joshua James Good on August 14, 1999 in Tampa, FL.
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