ichard Alvin

born : Antioch, Contra Costa, California

married : Clovis, Fresno, California

Bobbye Joyce Herion

children :

Richard Allen

Jeffery Steven

Kenneth Scott

Jason Elliott

grandchildren :

Lee, Jason, Brent Nathan, Samantha Dillion, Scott, Kristen

Growing up, Rick lived in several California towns, Antioch and Bethel Island, on the coast, Fresno and Merced in the San Joaquin Valley, and different places in the Los Angeles area. He moved to Clovis in 1959, going to school at Luther E. Weldon Elementary and Clovis High School.

At Clovis High School he was a typical of times teen-ager. A flat top hair cut, with fins yet, his jeans a size to large in the waist so that they hung low on the hips, along with a white tee shirt and Wellington boots, were his usual dress of the day. His probable claim to fame comes from two incedents that happened while in high school, one he got caught at the time and the other I will tell here after 40 years and if anyone is still wondering who did that.....well, now you know.

Rick and his best friend, Tom Cieslewitz, decided it wasn't right that the girls were the only ones to enjoy Clovis High's " Blossom Day " by wearing their new spring dresses. So they took a pair of white jeans, tee shirts, their hair and dyed them pink. Blossom Day dawned bright and clear, every color of the rainbow was represented in an array of colors from the new dresses of the girls, and right in the middle of it you had 2 pink haired boys, dressed in pink pants and shirts. Needless to say, the school administration didn't appreciate their efforts and made them go home and come back looking like boys again.

Their other escaped was more juvenile dilequint, by deed, but just boys having fun, by intent. They decided a football game needed some excitement, so on a trip to the boys room they set the waste paper can on fire. The building was made of cement block and the paper in the can was wet and damp, so it was more smoke than anything, but it did stir things up. So now you know !!!!!!

While he was in school he worked as a mechanic for Bodine's Garage, after school, week-ends and during the summer. After his marriage he went to work for San Joaquin Country Club in Fresno as ground maintainence. After working there for about a year he took a job as an assistant greenskeeper at a golf course in Placerville.

While in Placerville he got the chance to go to work for Western Lake Properties, a land devolpement company. They build private lakes with golf courses, with building lots. He helped develope Lake of the Pines in Grass Valley, California, from the ground up. They had to take out brush, build the lake and golf course, doing the landscaping on greens, fairways, where ever they wanted something planted he did it. After it was build he returned to his position of assistant greenskeeper, but when another project was started in Lake County, we went. Hidden Valley Lake in Lower Lake, California was our last construction job. The boys were starting school and it was time to find a place to settle more permenantly.

Deciding to move closer to homebase, the family moved to Madera, California, in 1970, after Rick secured a job with Italian Swiss Colony Winery, now known as United Vintners. Rick had worked there for over 10 years, when the family decided to go to Tennessee. In Tennessee he stayed in the bottling business, but went to soft drinks. He worked first for Royal Crown bottling of Nashville before the closed their plant, then he went to Beaman Bottling, franchise owner of Pepsi in Nashville. This is where he is still employed.

Rick holds his 3rd brown belt in maratial arts from the Kenju School of Martial Arts under Sensi Kirk Ellis. Kenju is a form of Kenpo that Sensi Ellis added judo moves and other styles to the basic kenpo forms to create his own style.

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