Richard Wrathall

I was born in the small town of Magna, Utah, approximately 15 miles west of Salt Lake City. The primary employer in the area was Kennecott Copper Corporation.

After graduation from high school, I entered The University of Utah and also went to work at the copper refinery at Garfield, Utah. A couple of years after going to work at Kennecott the employees went on strike and I took a job at Western Airlines.

While working at Western I was drafted into the Army in November, 1959. I was sent to Ft. Ord, California where I served my entire military career being released with the rank of SP5. I returned to the University of Utah and my job at Western Airlines. Upon graduation in 1964 I went to work for the Carnation Company selling consumer products to supermarkets. In 1969 I transferred from Carnation Company to Reynolds Metals Company continuing to sell consumer products to supermarkets.

I retired from Reynolds Metals in 1999 as District Manager of the Los Angeles District. It was while I worked in the Los Angeles District as a salesman that I became familiar with the Central Coast. Upon retiring, my wife and I moved from Palos Verdes, California, to Shell Beach, California.

I was at a lecture the other day where the speaker said: “You do not have to die to go to heaven if you live in Pismo Beach.”

During my free time for the last sixty years I have been an avid tennis player, golfer and bicycle rider.