The North Region Communication Center

PERSONAL

Linda & Ronnie Kane

Married June 7, 1963

Mom and Dad lived in Clay Township near Wawpecong in Miami County Indiana when I was born.  They moved to Kokomo for my first winter to a rented house at the corner of Main and Broadway.  Dad drove a delivery route for a Kokomo bakery back then til he moved back to the farm in my early youth.  The dates are foggy but my first recollections are of living on a farm and all of my formative years were spent that way.  Up early to do chores and then to school where some made fun of us farm kids for the way our shoes smelled. 

The farm is about 2 miles north of Grissom Air Force Base and located in pipecreek township

on the southwest corner of US 31 and the Onward Road.

A perfect place to grow up

School was pretty routine.  24 students in my graduating class where I ranked 8^th.  So I can describe my self as in the upper third or 16^th from the bottom depending on how the words are chosen.

I ran track and kept the bench warm on the basketball team.  In my freshman year Bunker Hill High School offered softball.  The last three years they offered baseball.  I was equally average at both.  Pitched softball right handed and baseball left handed.  No idea why that was the case.

BUNKER HILL HIGH SCHOOL

Minutemen Class of '56

Vocational Ag was my favorite class and I was an officer in the FFA for all four high school years.

During my senior year my Vo Ag class project was sprucing up our John Deere B model with a new paint job.

Farming, sports, and eating were what kept my interest in those years as I kept track of the years til I could apply for the Indiana State Police.