08 Jan 08 15:46, THEODORE NIKODEM wrote to ROY WITT:

 TN> Where at in northern Illinois? I was raised in Winnebago (suburb of
 TN> Rockford)  about 62 miles (100km) south of Madison Wisconsin.

I was born and raised in Freeport. I worked in Rockford in my early 20s as
a machinist.

 TN> Now I rarely get back there since I no longer have any close family
 TN> there. My preference would be to move back to Anchorage, Alaska.

My siblings and mother are still there...my mother is 88 and has dementia,
so she's really not there, if you get what I'm talking about.

 TN> However, I doubt my employer will open an office there (I work for a
 TN> local government in Michigan).

 TN> -> No doubt...that is the major reason why I moved from Northern
 TN> Illinois to -> Southern California in 1966 and now South Texas. I
 TN> paid a visit to the old -> homestead a year ago, last November. Had
 TN> to buy a heavier jacket for the -> occasion. ->


                R\%/itt



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