Bill & LaVonne Lee
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The
Baseball Necrology
ACHENBACH
AUGHENBAUGH and AUGHINBAUGH
A lifetime baseball fan, Bill
was born in Kansas as Bill Oswald. His father, also Bill Oswald,
died from a sudden heart attack when Bill was 5 years old. After
his father's death, he and his mother moved to the West Coast where she
remarried and his stepfather adopted him, giving him the name of
Lee. Eventually the Lee's ended up in the Imperial Valley of
Southern California where Bill was raised.
As a boy Bill followed the Pacific Coast League before the Dodgers and
Giants moved to the West Coast. He saw many major league stars at
the beginning of their careers on their way "up", or at the end of
their careers on their way "down". He also followed major league
baseball through the colorful re-creations of Gordon McClendon, who
called himself "The Old Scotchman", on his Liberty Broadcasting
Network. This is when he began wondering "What happened to
. . ?" after they left the limelight of a relatively short
baseball career.
Educated as an engineer, Bill attended
the University of California, Berkeley, and received his BS in
Engineering Science at Arizona State University. He later earned his
MBA at Cal Poly, Pomona, and has credits toward a masters degree in
history at Utah
State University. A pioneer in automated information
systems, he designed, programmed and managed computer-based systems for
nearly 30 years, leaving his paying job as Director of
Information Systems for a multinational electronic component
manufacturer in 1987. Since that time he has been busier than
ever, working as a self-employed family and local history researcher.
In 1963 she moved from Goshen to Scottsdale, Arizona, where she was the secretary for the Director of the Parks and Recreation Department of City of Scottsdale. She says that was the "best job she ever had." It was in Scottsdale where she and Bill met each other in 1969. They were married two years later. In 1977 she and Bill moved to Riverside, California, where she worked as secretary/bookkeeper in the corporate office of A. M. Lewis, a large grocery wholesaler serving Southern California, Nevada and Arizona.
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