Val Eaves Nowatzki

I started working in the oil field near Gillette, then moved on to Kerr-McGee Clovis Point Coal mine where I was a laborer and then heavy equipment operator for 5 years. I married Jim Nowatzki on my birthday 12/15, in 1979. I started a local photography business in Gillette where I did everything from weddings, to team pictures to wild life photography. We moved to Scottsdale Arizona in 1987 and have been there ever since. I worked in retail sporting goods and still enjoyed water skiing, snow skiing, camping etc.... I begame a first level golf pro for a while until I injured my knee skiing. We ride motorcycles and dirt bikes and quads (love the sand and trails), tried archery hunting and 3-d shoots. Raised a lot of dogs including Blood Hounds. We belong to a great large non-denominational church in Mesa Arizona. My mother lives in Tuscon now and Jim's parents live part of the year in Casa Grand Az. My sister Janine is in Gillette and manages the Hertz Rent a Car at the airport.