March 15, 2007 HUNTING

Bill enjoyed hunting every year for many years. He would go out with his Dad and friends Harry Hoch and Whitie Larson. They always brought their quota of deer home. They went up in the hills around Idaho. They would tromp all over the hills; they had a plan. He could hike all day and when they were ready to go back to camp, Bill could take them back to camp the shortcut way without having to back track. He had a very good sense of direction.
When they brought their deer in, they could take it to the lockers and hang it for two weeks, then we would have a day where we all got together and cut it for freezing. It was a family day when we would cut up the deer, and divide and everyone got a share.
One day Bill took me hunting with him. We took a small trailer up to the hills and set up our campsite. Bill got up about 6 AM when it was just getting light. I am no good in the morning, so went back to bed.
About two hours later, he came in and asked if I had seen the deer. They had walked through the campsite after he had left. There had been about four, he figured, by the tracks. I just wasn't the hunter he was.
He also went chuckar and pheasant hunting. He had his dog, Silky, a weimaraner that he took with him. She was the best hunting dog. They worked as a team. She would set pheasants when the other dogs were still running around. She was very protective of Bill.

March 2, 2007, DRIVING
Bill bought his first automobile when he was 12 years old. It was a 1928 Model A Ford. It was used as the family car. Bill started driving tractors in the field, and graduated to the car. He got his driver's license when he was 14. Once he got a car, he never wanted to ride a bicycle again. He loved driving and enjoyed his car.

BILL & BARBARA HUTCHINSON
Bill was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the first son, the second child of harry and Ferne Hutchinson. When he was a year old the family moved out to Idaho to see if life was better there. He learned to walk while they were snowed in at a motel on the way across. The family rented the Pence Ranch out at Willow Creek, out of Payette, Idaho. In 1944, Bill's dad bought the farm sout of Fruitland, Idaho.
In the early forties they lived on the Oltman place South of Fruitland where his dad used German POW's to work the farm for him.
Bill grew up on the Farm South of Fruitland. He ehlped clear the sagebrush off the land and plant it to hay and grain. They milked cows and eded out a living. Bill was raised with his older sister, Polly Jean, brothers, Don and Les, and Younger sister, Ellen.

Bill attended school in Fruitland from first grade in 1942, till he graduated from high school in 1954. He was in 4H with pigs and fat steers. When he was in the eighth grade he got a steer that was donated by Albertson's to raise and show at the fair.

The family attended the First Methodist Church in Fruitland. Farm work was shut down on Sunday except for milking the cows and setting irrigation water as needed.

Bill attended high school at Fruiland, where he was quarterback on the football team for four years. His senior year he was selected to the Elks All Star Team. The small schools played the larger schools and the small school All Stars won.

He participated in the school plays all four years during high school. He was in Glee Club his Freshman year. He spent part of each summer at Methodist Church Camp at Wallowa Lake, Oregon four years.

Halloweens were interesting when he was in high school.. He tells of the time some of the guys got together for halloween and cut down all the alcohol advertising signs along the highways in Payette County. They never did find the culprits.

There was also the time a bunch of the guys went out and cleaned up the county by picking up all the outhouses they could find and blocked all the entrances to the high school. OOps! they missed the one to go to the basement to the gym. They made the cover of LIFE magazine with that one. Folk dancing was done during the summer on the tennis courts.

College years were spent at the University of Idaho. He played on the Uof I football team his freshman year.. He graduated from the University of Idaho with a BS in Ag Ed in 1959.That summer Jerry Camman called from Vale, Oregon to offer Bill a job at Vale High School. He was Ag teacher at Vale High School the next six years.

To earn money for his years at college he worked for Rines Orchards, ran a milk route, did landscaping, and other odd jobs.

In 1962 Bill met a wonderful,young, innocent girl, Barbara Bush. She was born in Portland, Oregon and raised on a small farm in southwest Washington. She grew up with her older sister, Lenore, older brother, Darrell and a younger brother, Jerry. Barbara went to school in Battle Ground, Washington. Her dad was killed in a freak air accident at an airshow. She then went her senior year of high school to a small Christian school, Salem Academy, graduating in 1962.

After high school graduation, Barbara went to Idaho to live with her aunt and uncle, John and Eva Jean Purdum. She started in the first LPN Nursing Class held by Treasure Valley Community College. She attended the First United Methodist Church, where she met a young man, Bill Hutchinson. Bill was sitting with his sister, Ellen, in church. Barbara was singing in the choir. Bill nudged Ellen and told her, "There's the girl I'm going to marry."

Bill & Barbara were married July 5, 1963. Daughter Janice was born August 13, 1964; Laura, February 27, 1968; Karen, March 4, 1969; Kris, October 17, 1975, and Nadine; June 3, 1977.
Over the years Bill worked at several different jobs. Vale HighSchool, Redmond HighSchool, Fruitland High School, Boise State University, Payette County Assessor's Office, Farmer's Home Administration, Farmers Supply Coop,and The Amalgamated Sugar Factory. In 1988, the family moved to Elko, Nevada where Bill worked as Executive Director of Ruby Mountain Resource Center, Nevada Youth Training Center, Spring Creek Golf Course, Allied Petroleum, and Intermountain Engineering Corp. He then put together a program and built a small business teaching Mine Safety.

While we were in Fruitland, Bill farmed. He raised dairy cows, hay and grain. Later the Dairy cows were sold and he raised angus beef cattle.

Barbara worked as an LPN at Holy Rosary Hospital. She went back to school, Boise State University to get her RN degree and worked as an RN at Holy Rosary Hospital. After moving to Elko, she worked at Elko General Hospital. In 1999, Barbara left Elko General Hospital to work as a travel RN in California, and Arizona. She also traveled to Utah, Idaho, Alaska, and Oregon to work.

In Elko, Bill served with Elko Lions Club and was chairman of the annual Man/Mule Race at Lammoile, Nevada.

In 2003, Bill began having difficulty walking and thinking. He just wasn't acting right.. He had chelation IV therapy, glutathione IV therapy. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and started on medication for that. He was having hallucinations. We cleaned the house in Elko, and Bill began travelling with me.
Janice attended University of Idaho, and Hutchison Technical School, at Hutchison, Minnesota. She graduated with a degree in Dairy Management. She married Jim Kerner December 23, 1990. Janice now runs a dairy in Emmette, Idaho. She has three children, Jimmy, Jason, and Janette
Laura attended Alaska Pacific University, in Anchorage, Alaska. She went on a Vollyball scholarship, and played vollyball all four years of college. She married Joe Dirksen August 1, 1992. They live in Anchorage, Alaska. Laura teaches Junior High school classes and runs the athletic programs for the school. Joe works for Alaska Airlines and is in the Airforce Reserves. They have four children, Jesse, Jacob, Jolie, and Jordan.

Karen attended University of Idaho, went to school in Minnesota on an exchange program, then graduated from U of I. She married Mike Peterson July 14, 1991. They live in Ft. Myers, Florida. Mike runs his own business he calls Computer Medics. Karen helps with the business and home schools their three children, Joshua, Mesha, and Naomi.

Kris attened South Dakota Technical Institute of Mining and Engineering in Rapid City, South Dakota. She married Zach Spencer April 24, 1999. They work Spencer Composites, his parent's business in Sacramento, CA. They have one daughter, Nadia, and a son, Logan.

Nadine spent four years in the U. S. Marine Corp. She married Kevin Freiburger September 26, 1999. Kevin is a Staff Sargeant in the Marines. He is in the EOD division. Nadine stays at home with their three children, Ilyssa and Ty, and Kyra. They were stationed in Okinawa, Japan. They have recently moved to North Carolina.

Count them up!! We have 15 grandchildren scattered across the world. We don't just go see the girls, but we do try to see them all.