DALY, WILLIAM AND BELINDA KAY (STARR)

by Belinda K. Daly

Entry F105 from the History of Hooker County Nebraska
with permission of the Hooker County Historical Society

William Daly Family, 1983. Belinda, Trevor,
Travis and William (Bill).

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.