In 2011 Robert says this on his top 12 reasons....
1969: Kenny moves from Renton to Sumner, Washington into apartment J-3 at the Rainier View Apartments. It is a low-end apartment and the rent is about $90 a month. Bernie is laid off (or quits, we are not sure) during the huge layoffs Boeing did that year. He finds a job working as a mechanic for Foss Tugs in Seattle. This ends up being the place he works until he retires.
The "low-end apartment" is fishy. the apartments were pretty new. he had several years to stock pile money it seems to me for a down payment on a house. here we also have a memory problem. seems they can remember a toupee being worn prior to November 24, 1971, but can't remember if they were laid off, or quit?
1970: Bernie's sister Dawn, who lives in Minnesota, gets a divorce and moves her four children to Bonney Lake, WA. She moves in with Bernie and Margaret. She is introduced to Kenny and he sometimes drops by to play cards with the three of them, or with Margaret and some of her friends. Dawn testifies later that Kenny sometimes wore a toupee, and that he told people the airline paid him very well, even though everyone knew this was not true.
The only records that surface of the Geestmans in Bonney lake is a document for power of attorney in reference to Elva Geestman. no proof of them living there under there own name can be found. Elva could possibly be the mother, I don't know. the only one with records living there is Dawn.
