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De Miller   
Wyandotte High School - Class of 1968

Member since March 21, 2008.
Currently living in Mount Dora, FL.

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Hello Bulldogs! I’m finally getting around to doing this! We’ve been out of school almost 40 years and lots of things have happened which makes it hard to get it all in. But, then again, after looking the list over, not too much has happened. John Lennon said it best, I think: “LIFE is what happens while you’re busy making other plans” Well, I have been pretty busy these past 40 years making those plans, and here are the highlights of how it really turned out! I’ve been married 25 years to the best friend a man could have, my getting-more-beautiful-every-day wife, Sue. It is the second marriage for both of us and we got it right this time! (The first marriages aren’t really worth mentioning except for the two fabulous children…me two sons and her a son and a daughter…that we got out of the deal. We blended our family of four and got them all through the Kansas City school system….no bulldogs, but they all went to Sumner after it was changed to a magnet school. So far those four have been responsible for giving us the biggest joy of our lives…our grandchildren. Eleven of them and still counting! (It’s kinda funny that that…grandchildren….is something that I really wasn’t thinking about when I was busy making all those plans those many years ago!) Grandchildren (and those of you who have been blessed with some know what I’m talking about) make this getting “old” junk worthwhile! Our oldest son, Mark, is a Mr. Mom, working on a couple novels and living here in Mount Dora, FL. (More about that in a minute). He has two sons and two daughters and we get to see them almost every day! His wife, Traci, is a supervisor at a newly opened Lowe’s Home Improvement Center near here. Our second son, Ben, is a finance manager at a Lexus dealership and he is still in Kansas City with two of our grandchildren, a boy and a girl. He is engaged to a wonderful gal, Christy, and they are about to add her two little ones (a boy and a girl) to our lot, giving us the baker’s dozen that Sue also said she wanted! No specific date has been set for the wedding, but we’ve been told it should be soon. One good thing, the children are old enough to fly unattended and they visit us six or seven times a year. Our only daughter, Kate, lives with her three beautiful daughters in Holly Springs, N.C., where she is an office manager. The three girls are also old enough to fly and they also visit us several times a year. Our youngest son, Aaron, lives with his wife, Traci (yep, two Traci’s!) and their two children, a boy and a girl, in Plano, TX (north of Dallas). Neither of them are old enough to fly unattended yet, so we only get to see them a time or two a year when we travel to Texas. Aaron is a sales associate for a Toyota dealership near his home. So, our family is kinda spread out, but we’re still close and that makes us very lucky. Up until the fall of 2006 we still lived in Kansas City in good old Wyandotte County. We had been talking for many years about moving some place where it doesn’t snow and Mark and his family (and four of our grandchildren) decided to move to Florida and we decided that was our time to go also. We moved to a nice little town called Mount Dora (population 10,000) which is about 35 miles north of Orlando. We bought a nice house overlooking a small lake, put in a pool and have been enjoying the Florida lifestyle ever since. We’ve got the peace and quiet of a small town, but we’re close enough to the big city for any of those amenities. (And Disney World is 45 minutes away door to door!) Mark and his family lived with us for about six months while their new home was being built about two miles away. They’ve been living in their new home about a year now. We get to see them almost every day, which is somewhat of a change from Kansas City where they lived next door and we saw the kids every day! But it is still great being so close. (We’d like to other three to move here to the warmer climate and we drop hints whenever we can…… I’m still planning, huh?) As far as subsistence, Sue and I operated several businesses for a number of years in Kansas City. (Several video rental stores, a couple one-hour photo stores, a chain of pager and cellular stores and finally a small home phone company, among other things.) We eventually sold all of those, including some commercial real estate, before we moved here and have been kinda bumming around ever since. (We still own a fabulous house there in Wyandotte County, so if you know anybody who is looking, send them to www.2842n55th.com.) We’ve been taking our time getting into something else down here. We made a list of the things we liked to do because we decided whatever we do down here will probably take us to our retirement, so it will be the last thing we do. We needed it to be something we really enjoyed. Of course, our list was lead by playing with the grandkids…..we couldn’t think of any way to get paid for that, so we moved on to the second thing on our list, which was travel. True, I could be a travel writer, but that didn’t sound too substantial, so we didn’t pursue that. However, a great deal of our travels took us to oldies concerts. We loved to do that. Then we hit on IT! We loved oldies music…the kind we all were listening to when we went to Wyandotte HS (and there are a lot of older people down here) We discovered that one thing missing from our particular area was an Oldies Radio Station. Now, that would be something that would interest us, we’d love to do that and we could, eventually, get paid for doing it. So, that’s what we’re involved in at the present time. The process to get licensed by the FCC is lengthy, but we’re almost through that and we’ll be setting up the station within the next six months, we hope. We should be on the air by 2009! (I’ll update this as things progress.) The photos I’ve posted are fairly recent. Of course, I had to include the one me with my pride and joys. That one was taken in the summer of 2007. Hopefully we’ll get it updated this coming summer. If any of you are interested, we’ve got more family photos on our website at www.milleramerica.com. Take a look if you’re interested and be sure to drop me a line (demillerks@yahoo.com). I’d love to hear from you. Go bulldogs!

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