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Morgiel Morgan

After high school Morgiel went to work at a cedar wood mill, but with Vietnam and the draft heating up, he joined the army reserves where he was trained as a telephone line repairman. After 10 months active duty he got out and, training in hand, took a job with the telephone company. He worked first as a lineman for 2 ½ years, then as a foreman, the youngest they ever had, for 7 ½ year total. At which point he decided to try something else, and with a friend they started up a clay pigeon factory in Odessa, WA, but after a year it was time to move on. There was kind of a “wild period” then, it was the early 70’s after all, where his hair got long and he just hung out. Then, in 1975, he took off for Alaska and worked as an engineer on fishing tender that collected fish from smaller boats. Hard work that paid well, then home to Seattle for the winter. Then back to Alaska, but this time in communication construction and as a lineman; the telephone company. They worked everywhere bringing in phone service to places that had none. And that became the pattern for the next 30 years. Summers in Alaska. Winters in Seattle or Hawaii. He bought a house and a few acres on the Kona side of the Big Island, which turned into a rental. He got married in 1972, to a woman from New Zealand for a year and half that “basically got her a green card”. He remarried in 1982 to a woman that worked for an airline and their travel expenses were reduced considerably. He retired when he turned 59 and they still splits their time, although now its summers in Alaska and winters in Green Valley, AZ (just north of Tucson). He’s trying to learn to golf. And wishes he’d taken a class in it at Shoreline

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