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Phillip Brackenbury

Profile Updated: October 2, 2023
Class Year
1961
Residing In
Richland, WA USA
Spouse/Partner
Linda Whitney (Deceased 9-7-16)
Occupation
Retired Engineer
Children/Grand Children
Ethan, Born 1970, Exeter, NH
Eli, Born 1973, Exeter, NH
Military Service
U. S. Merchant Marine  
Married/Single/Divorced/Widowed?

Widowed, Single

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MHHS graduate, Paul Newman impersonator, college graduate, world circumnavigator, shellback, Vietnam veteran, parachutist, father, grandfather, PTA golden acorn award recipient, mechanic, cabinet maker, furniture refinisher, wood carver, welder, metal sculptor, zymurgist, collector, registered multi-discipline professional engineer, inventor, technical writer, author, state champion, national record holder, Gunsite Academy graduate, marathoner, fitness fanatic, and mortgage burner. I moved around for my work after college: PA, NH, WY, SC, ID WA and now ID and AZ.
For several years I spent part of the winter in AZ in rental properties here and there in and around Phoenix.
I am writing a memoir for my kids and grandkids.
After a years-long casual correspondence with Jeanne Campbell, upon the passing of her husband, my friend Gordon, the two of us have begun new lives together. We spend our time in McCall, ID and Tucson, AZ. In Jeanne's company my extreme good fortune and God's blessings in life continues.

School Story

Linda and I painted our year on the water tank by the doughnut tree. I called her dad on a dare and told him I was a Deputy and we had been arrested for doing it.
Broke down between MH and Boise in Gene Green's Chevy and carried water for his radiator in one of his hubcaps.
Bates and I caught with beer going into the base and sent back to town, with the beer, to turn ourselves in. Slap on the wrist and Sheriff kept the beer as evidence labelled Bates and Brackenbury beer.
Worked in the hay & slept in a bunk house at Riddle one summer, got on a plane at the end of it, got off within sight of the Empire State Building and basically never went back to MH.....except to marry.

What are you doing to keep young and active?

I go to the gym every day, and take Les Mills group fitness classes. I walk, bike, and do strength training. I am a tournament shooter and travel to and from the venues to both train and compete.

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Julie and Linda were very good friends (maybe "Besties") and shared a lot of memories together, many more than I know.  Linda and I frequently stopped at Ben and Julie's house when we were in Boise for other reasons.  I/we had a lot of respect for how this woman handled her arthritific afflictions.  Heroically.  I'm sorry Ben now has to go on alone.  RIP Julie.

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Dec 04, 2020 at 3:53 PM

I was saddened to get the message of his passing.

My most cherished memories have to do with the toil of putting up hay at his family farm.  Riding the slip, stacking the bales with his grandpa (I think that's who it was) backing the tractor back and forth lifting the bales onto the stack with a Johnson (also called Jackson) hay fork.  Richard would smile to hear me say that the best parts were the meals in his mom's kitchen...that seemed to go on and on...and sated the hungry teenaged boys.  There wasn't a reunion that we didn't talk about these memories with each other.

I benefitted in knowing him, and his perpetual ear-to-ear smile.  RIP Richard.

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Posted on: Sep 23, 2020 at 10:27 AM

That's the easy part Lee! You got the hair down pat now you've gotta go for the (car) body!
Photo is of me and my #1 son a few months ago in Pasco

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Since we're apparently into transportation modes.......

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