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Rose Spencer Caughie

I enjoyed reading every ones bio, it was interesting how close some of our past have crossed and not even known it.

My life has gone through many changes in the last 40 years. I married Bud Botsford (graduated in 1966 DHS) in 1969 through 1985. We lived around the Roseburg area for 10 years. My son was born in 1972 and name after his father and grandfather making him the III. Chuck owns a construction company in Washington. We adopted my daughter (now Lia Pretorius) in 1982. Lia is a sales manager for an online newspaper company in Utah, where she is raising my grandsons, Dalek is 14 years old and Stavros is 7 years old. We moved in 1982 to Tooele, Utah (35 mile south west of Salt Lake City). We divorced in 1985, he moved on and I stayed working at Tooele Army Depot and raising my children. I worked in general supply, ammunition, and then to munitions (warfare chemicals) where one year I met Russian interpreters (our guys), Russian mayors, and even KGB this was before the Soviet Union broke up.

I met my husband Ronald Caughie (1984) at the depot; he was military at the time. He found me in what we called the junk yard of the depot hopping up and down and going round and round this huge tall wooden crate. I didn’t know any one was around and I probably looked pretty silly. He saw me and drove over on a forklift to see what I doing. I looked around to see if any body else was around then ask him to lift me up on the forks to look at the top of the box (a big no no).

We became friends, after finding out that we both were from Oregon and had shown up in Tooele in the same year. Ron went to school in Central Point and even came to our school for wresting tournaments. We married in 1987 and have been together every since. Between his two kids and my kids they were all ten months apart, so we had 4 teenagers in high school. Ron retired from the Army in 1988 and my career was basically just starting. After the kids were gone and the depot was about to close, we move.

We moved to Sacramento, CA in 1993 and I became an Environmental Technician for the government, working on delivery orders and then shipping bulk hazardous waste. I help to close down Sacramento Army Depot, Mare Island, and Mather Air Force Base, it was sad to see so many places closing. I really like the work and living there.

In 2000 the air force base where I was working at was closing and one more time to move on. This time I sort of got my wish; I was back in Oregon only in the Portland area. I went to work for the US Army Corps of Engineers at Bonneville Lock and Dam for 18 months and then in 2002 I moved down town Portland worked as a Procurement Tech in Contracting. I loved the work, but now looking forward to the day I can retire and finally move back home that should be in 2013.

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