Today comes but once, my friend
it can never return--
so use it wisely while you can,
there's a lesson you may learn.
Clay Harrison
Francis J. Brazeau
Born: August 28, 1921, Klondike Wisconsin
1940-41: College at Oskosh State Teachers College
1941-1946: Army Air Corp, WWII, honorable discharge, Technical Sergeant
1946-1950: Opened and operated a dry cleaning establishment in Cambridge Wisconsin.
1951-1970: Started a franchise bookkeeping and tax service in South Bend Indiana, January 1951-1970, with the Accounting Corp of America. Notable clients: Col. Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dave Thomas of Wendy's and Erman and Roy Beck of Beck Welding in Elkhart Indiana.
1970 - 1986: Sold the accounting practice and took a sales manager's position with the Accounting Corp of American in Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and finally Boston, Massachusetts, covering the entire East Coast.
Retirement: Relocated to South Bend Indiana. Writing projects include personal life story, and currently, "The Day After Graduation."
Family: Father of six daughters, eleven grandchildren and four great grandchildren, is in excellent health, and has a wealth of friends all over the USA. Summers are spent in South Bend, Indiana, winters in Bonita Springs, Florida. Very happily married to Eleanor Brademas. Regrets the loss of three siblings, a brother and two sisters, many former business acquaintances and almost all his army buddies.
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