Jim retired from Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO) and resided in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, for nearly fifty years but now lives in Sea Isle City, New Jersey. He and his late wife, Lois, had four children. While James, Patricia, and Steven still live in the Drexel Hill area, their daughter Kathleen died in 1994, at age twenty-nine. A Korean War air force veteran, Jim served in Wiesbaden, Germany, from 1951 to 1954. He has a BS degree in economics from Villanova University and a MA degree in liberal arts from Temple University. Jim has published several children's stories, a book of essays, a collection of poetry, and The Last Field Marshal, a book on World War II.