Welcome to the Wilson Family Website

 

 John and Barb married in Manhattan, Kansas. That June, Barb had returned to Manhattan from Grand Junction, Colorado, where she had been teaching 4th Grade.  She had planned to spend the summer in Manhattan with her parents prior to moving to Kansas City to accept a new teaching position there.  John had just graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant from Army Infantry Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was assigned to Fort Riley, Kansas when he rented a basement apartment in a house across the street from where Barb's parents lived in Manhattan.

The rest is history . . . we met in June, married in September, and moved to Abilene, Kansas where Barb had secured a new teaching assignment at Garfield Elementary
 School after getting out of her Kansas City contract. John left for Vietnam in December. We saw each other for a few short days in August on R&R in Hawaii, then John returned to Vietnam to complete his tour and safely return to the good old U.S.A. in December 1970 just in time for Christmas. We lived in Abilene for 14 years, moving to Omaha in 1983 when John accepted a promotion to management with his then employer, Schering-Plough Corporation. Barb taught in the Millard Public Schools in Omaha from 1983 to 2007.

The first addition to our family was a daughter, Jessica, born in 1974; a second daughter, Rachael, was born in 1978. Jessica and her husband, Jason Neal, were married in Houston, Texas at the River Oaks Garden Club on March 20th, 2004.

John and Barb live in Corte Bella Country Club located in the Northwest Valley of the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area. Jessica and Jason reside in Houston, Texas, and Rachael lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.