DALY, WILLIAM AND BELINDA KAY (STARR)

Belinda Kay Starr was born 1954 in Alliance, Nebraska. She is the oldest of Thomas Lyle Starr and Mildred Lois Miller Starr.

Belinda went to Mullen Public Schools and graduated in 1972. In high school she was very active in 4-H, sending her knitting to state 3 years and receiving purple ribbons each time. After graduation she went to Grand Island School of Business graduating in 1973. She was selected to make a People to People Tour to 11 European Countries with a 4-H group in July of 1973.

In August of 1973 she started working for the Journal-Star Printing Company as a typist in the composing room in Lincoln, Nebraska.

In 1976 she married William Carl Daly of Arthur, Nebraska. As Bill was in the United States Navy they went to live in Masset, British Columbia, Canada where he was stationed. Masset is on the Queen Charlotte lslands off the coast of British Columbia. This was a great place for the outdoorsmen. Besides the camping, you could get your own clams, crabs, salmon, halibut and shrimp when the shrimp boats came in. It rained 300 days out of the year but you got used to the daily drizzle.

While in Masset their two sons were born, Trevor Allen on 1977 and Travis Tyler on 1978.

After a 4 year tour in Masset, Bill got recruiting duty out of the Omaha district. They lived in North Platte for 6 months, Kearney for 2 years and Bellevue for 6 months. While in Kearney, Belinda worked at the "Kearney Hub" daily newspaper.

In September of 1983 (3 weeks after the Soviets shot down the Korean Airliner) Belinda and the boys flew to Seoul, Korea to join Bill and to make their home for the next 2 years. While in Korea, Belinda worked as a bus monitor for the school and then as a Ration Control Clerk for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Korea was a very different but rewarding experience. Seoul has 9 million people. The roads are packed with taxies and buses. When you have a car wreck, the vehicle with the bumper in front has the right of way. We had a maid as did most people stationed there. Our maid spoke English well enough to understand us. She would cook hamburgers for the boys as an after school snack. Other nights she would cook Korean food for us. We all really enjoyed the food. The day we left, our maid came to our hotel room and cooked a meal for us and told us goodbye. She really hated to see the boys leave. The shopping was also great. Pants, shoes and shirts were all cheap and since a lot of them are imported to the states they were the same items that we pay four of five times the amount for here in the United States.

In 1985, we came back to the States when Bill was stationed on the "USS Ranger" out o San Diego, California. Since Bill is out to sea a lot Belinda keeps pretty busy with the boys and their activities and school. Belinda is currently working for an accounting firm as a word processor.