Paul Williams

Fenton High School

Class of 1974

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Paul Williams - Class of 1974 - Fenton High School

First Name	Paul
Last Name	Williams
Graduation Year	Class of 1974
Gender	Male
Current Location	Forsyth, MO
Hometown	Bensenville, IL.
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	Wellll....After High School I went to Greer Tech where because of the training my Dad gave me in bodywork, I started teaching there, that lasted for 4 years. I then went to work for a shop in River Grove and worked there for 4 more years. During that time I hooked up with a car club from Elmhurst called the Street Shakers. In Feb. 1981 we all were hit with the worst wind chills -80 below in Chicago history at the time. My parents moved down to S.W. Missouri (8 miles West of Branson) in 1979 and I called my mom to see what the weather was. She informed me it was 40. I asked "below?" and I was informed that no it was above. Took all of 10 seconds for me to realize that, that was a 120 degree difference. It took me 1 week to sell all my earthly possessions and I moved down to S.W. MO. by my parents. I work for a boat repair shop doing all the steel and fiberglass repair as well as ALL the painting for the next 5 years. In 86 me and a friend (at the prodding of my what was to soon to be my X-girlfriend) moved to Kansas City and I got a job at a security company installing and designing alarm systems. In Aug. of 88 I responded to an alarm call that was giving us troubles. It was in a drop off yard for semi trailers. I called our dispatch and told them I was going into the lot and to immediately call the Police when they got that report. I checked all the trailers and all were still secured. The last trailer was the storage trailer, I climbed onto the back, lifted the rear gate and this white dude came blasting out. I jumped after him but my right foot hooked on the back lip and I completely tore EVERYTHING, only thing holding the leg together was the skin. After a 12 hour surgery and 7 months of rehab my soon to be wife and I moved back down to the S.W. area. It was there I learned my second passion, cooking. I worked on and off for the next 11 years in a couple of different restaurants. In 01 I got the call of the wild to go back to working on boats. In March 2005 I was headhunted by this shop in Nixa Mo., for almost $7.00 an hour more than I was making. In Oct. 2005 I was coming off the back of a pontoon boat in the shop and I slipped off the top rung and onto my back on a concrete floor. So for the next year I had 1 back surgery (which was the wrong surgery for the damage I had) and 3 months of rehab. After the doctor literally patted me on the head and told me like a TV Evangelist that I was healed, I went back to work in the restaurant field again. The pain never went away, in fact it got worse and in Aug. of 2008 I couldn't take the pain anymore and applied for disability. I got it first time around because I kept EVERYTHING documented. So since Feb. 2009 ...(read more)