Meet The Big Macs Of The Valley’s McDonald’s

Yakima Herald-Republic:

Jan: I grew up in Plain City, Ohio. I graduated from Ohio State University in marketing. I grew up in a very rural community, population 72, 30 miles outside Columbus. When I was 17, I was cooking hamburgers. I ran a 10-stool diner for the summer to help put my way through school.

Greg: I also grew up in Ohio, in a town called Bellefontaine, a town of about 15,000 people. I went to school at Ohio State University, where Jan and I met. Back in those days, the draft was still going pretty hot and heavy so I was in Navy ROTC. I thought if I was going to have to serve, I’d get better experience going in with the officer training and the professional background that provided.

Jan: We’ve been married 41 years. He graduated from college on a Tuesday, he was commissioned as an officer on Friday and we were married on Saturday. And we left Ohio Sunday.

We lived in Athens, Ga., we lived in New London, Conn., we lived back in Charleston, S.C., back in New London, Conn., and we lived in Virginia Beach, Va. I led my company in real estate sales for seven years while we were there. I taught school in all these different places and I also worked for the University of Georgia. So, I had different careers.

Greg: After I’d spent six months in supply core service, I was really fortunate and got selected to go to submarine school. All but one of my tours in the 13 years was associated with the submarine force.

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