Hal

Heritage

Biographical Information:

I was born and raised in Mountain Brook 17 miles East of Kalispell Montana. A large portion of the local history can be found about my Grand Father Krause

Personal Interest:

I am a Sagittarius born in the great Northwest in Kalispell, Montana. I attended Mountain Brook school and graduated from the 8th grade with 5 other kids(big class). I attended Flathead High School and graduated in 1974. In 1977 I married Janet Sandon. In the Fall of 1977 my father died and left my mother with an almost completed house and no power or phone. I moved back to Mountain Brook to help out with the family affairs and then helped with the family business till it was sold in 1984. February 11th 1981 I was a proud father of bouncing baby….Ryan….boy…. 1984 We moved all our belongings into a storage unit and toured the west coast returning back to Kalispell in the fall of 1984. Janet and I purchased our first house in 1985 and then in 1988 we sold it and built another one. The second house was disaster. It took 22 months from the time we broke ground till we closed. In 1991, 6 months after closing of the house the marriage was over. They say that a divorce and building a house are the two most difficult times to get through. I went through them both within a year. In the fall of 1991 I bought a 14×70 mobile home. While in the mobile home I started one of the largest BBS’s in the North West. People called from all over the world to get files and mail from the system. Which by the way was called “Sparky’s Corner BBS“. Over the next 2 years I purchased 2 street bikes a 450 and an 1100, a 1ton 4×4 to haul an overhead camper. In 1993 I met a fine LDS Lady who introduced me the the LDS Church. In 1994 I sold all my toys and bought 5 acres of land by Foys Lake which is 5 miles south west of Kalispell and in the spring of 1995 I began construction of a nice 5 bedroom house. I should have known better but on July 4th 1995 (Independence day) That fine LDS Lady(Kimberly Lamb) and I were married in the Cardston Alberta Temple. I shut the BBS’ down in the fall of 1995 due to the lack of interest from users and the increase of interest in the Internet. In 1996 I finished the basement of the house. In 1997 I built a 16×30 deck onto the house and in 1998 I installed a hot tub. In April 1999 Kim moved out and in May she filled for a divorce. Like I said a little Independent. February 25th 2000 Ryan got married. May of 2000 I moved to Kansas City, Missouri and purchased a nice new 1600 sq ft 4 bedroom 3 bath home with a 3 car garage in Raymore Missouri 20 miles south of Kansas City. Sparky and I lived comfortably in Raymore until June of 2002 CenturyTel Relocated me to Columbia, Missouri where I purchased a nice 4000sq ft duplex of which 2700sq ft is mine and the renter pays for almost half of the payment. Life is better with the lower payments and larger home. 

In 2005 I was offered a position as the head of the Information Technologies department for Glacier park INC and returned back to Kalispell. In 2009 I left GPI and started a Web hosting and Web design service. 2011 The Web hosting and design was overrun by India and I moved on. In 2011 worked as a graphic designer with Kalispell Copy Center but moved to a position in a call center with Bank of America Commercial Credit Cards. In 2012 I married my dance partner Julene Falk a Clarinda Iowa native. In 2014 I moved to Whitefish Credit Union as a programmer and they realized that I was a server administrator and moved me and my pay to the Infrastructure Department and then in 2018 WCU promoted me to the head of the department as the IT Manager! In 2021 I decided that it was time to retire so in an over-inflated Kalispell real estate market we sold at a remarkable price and moved to Clarinda Iowa.

In 2021 my time spent with almost endless tasks around the home In Clarinda Iowa. Added pantries to the kitchen. Rebuilt the kitchen sink base along with new sink and faucet. Bought new kitchen appliances which in turn required cabinets to be raised to accommodate taller refrigerator and raise the microwave over range. Water damage in the basement caused damage to custom woodwork and fireplace. The damage was repaired with the change to new cabinets and a refrigerator also the removal of popcorn and re-texture in the family room. 2022 added a glass shower door in the basement, started a 13x21ft HO train layout which should take 7-8 years to complete, planted 4 fruit trees. 2023 added 3 more fruit trees, removed popcorn, new texture and paint for living room and dining room. We replaced the brakes and rotors on the 300 Chrysler and of course worked on the HO train. In 2024 we removed popcorn, new texture and paint for kitchen, swapped 36in kitchen upper with the laundry 48in upper, reframed kitchen window and again worked on the HO train. 2025 we rewired to dedicated circuits the storeroom freezer, the freezer in laundry and the server UPS’s. Added new cabinets, reversed the washer and dryer, added pedestals under washer and dryer and a new sink.

I thought retirement would be the easy life but I cannot find time to get everything done. We still dance and/or teach 2 or more days a week and Julene still works. My HO train is progressing slowly because of all the other projects.