Ed Vernon

Paid through 2028

CPA - retired. Sold accounting practice in Roseville, California on January 1, 2014 and worked part time during tax season until 2020.

B.S. at Cal. State L.A. 1973.

Pasadena, South Pasadena, Germany (Army), Virginia (Army), California again, and retired in Oregon.

I was born and raised in Pasadena, and my parents moved to South Pasadena just before I started high school.

Tom Rogers, Peter Norman.

Cutting class to go to the beach. Getting booze in Highland Park at the little market. Playing pool at Duane Steele's house. Cutting class to go to the beach.

Current memberships:
United States Practical Shooting Association.
International Defensive Pistol Association.
Steel Challenge Shooting Associaton.
Folsom Shooting Club (Past President).
Sacramento Defensive Pistol Shooters (Founder).
Southern Oregon Practical Shooters Association.

I raised my daughter by myself from just before her fourth birthday.

Meeting my current wife in 2006. She is too special for words.

Retired and moved to Twin Creeks Development in Central Point Oregon July 15, 2016 - and absolutely love it here.

Competitive shooting.
Walking and a little hiking.
Reading.
Travel.
Surgery on body parts that have worn out (pastime???).

Songs of the 60's. Smooth jazz.

Favorite books: Anything by W.E.B. Griffith, Lonsome Dove, and Lucifer's Hammer.

(Tried to read a book that was a real book using real paper. Drove me nuts, switched back to Kindle).

Movies: Too many to list.

TV: Antiques Road Show and House Hunters International.

Competitive shooting: More for fun now than for competition - the older I get the better I used to be!!!

Hiking, reading, and travel.

Life is good. Retirement is good. Wife is good. Puppies are good. Joints have gotten worn out.

1966-1969

Specialist 5 (E5).

Militay Police.

None of any particular merit.

Military Police.
Personnel Specialist.

Fort Ord, California (basis training)
For Gordon, Georgia (military police school)
Wurzberg, Germany
Fort Eustis, Virginia

Served three years, one month, and twenty-nine days. Not that I kept count or anything. I really did not like being told what to do, which explains why I was self-employed for forty plus years.