About your president, Marion Rowe
I thought it would be nice to have on the web site feature information about local residents. We will be gathering up some information and feature these stories in this section. If you are interested in sharing your story please contact Marion Rowe by emailing Delorogroves@gmail.com.
Here is my story:
My husband and I commuted from North Tampa to Honeywell in Clearwater for about 7 years and the commute just became too long with the added traffic lights on Ulmerton. This is when I went on a house hunt in Clearwater. I fell in love with Del Oro Groves with the moment I saw it and we bought a fixer upper on San Bernadino St.
We moved in the house in 1990 all energized about our new home and project. We basically lived on one floor. The bathroom in the garage was unusable when we moved in and we fixed it to make it our main bathroom while we completely gutted everything upstairs tearing out the avocado green shag carpet (uck!), the rotted subflooring due to the bad plumbing, removed that old paneling, corrected so many electrical problems, put in new hardware floors, new tile, new double pane windows(deadened all of noise from the airlines flying overhead), added a garage, and the latest addition of a living space with a laundry room and bathroom. Needless to say this will be our last fixer upper.
During this renovation, my two children, Wylie and Eryn were born in 1993 and 1996 and have been raised in this home. It was a small town feel and I met some of the most wonderful teachers during my children’s education at Safety Harbor Elementary. What I love about this neighborhood is the beautiful trees, kayaking in the bay, the parks, my neighbors, the schools (high school not so much), walking to downtown Safety Harbor, access to the trails (we walk frequently), bike riding to the Causeway and all the way to Tampa, and easy access to the airports and I still am close to my family in Tampa.
So what did I fund all of this with? My career has been working for Honeywell in which I was fortunate as an electrical design engineer designing inertial systems in space and defense. Talk about an exciting field. I have worked with teams to design inertial systems that are orbiting and landed on Mars, comets, exploring the Kuiper Belt, exploring the moon and now we have units being prepared for the exploration of the icy moons of Jupiter. I have met some of the most intelligent and brightest people working in this field and it has been an honor. I have also led projects building inertial systems for the Orion Exploration mission. I have worked with Honeywell for over 36 years and soon that will come to a closed chapter in my life.
My husband and I enjoy hiking and we have hiked 300 miles of the Appalachian Trail and a lot of other trails. We now enjoy traveling out west to the Washington State area visiting my daughter who works in a small town known as Washougal that borders the Columbia River. She is a talented artist and she loves her work. She is a tattoo artist and you can Instagram her work by searching for Eryn Rowe Art. Wylie is training to become an EMT and wants to move to the same area. The area they live in reminds me a lot of Safety Harbor; it has that small town feel with a lot of culture but with the view of Mt. Hood and the Columbia River.
I thought it would be nice to have on the web site feature information about local residents. We will be gathering up some information and feature these stories in this section. If you are interested in sharing your story please contact Marion Rowe by emailing Delorogroves@gmail.com.
Here is my story:
My husband and I commuted from North Tampa to Honeywell in Clearwater for about 7 years and the commute just became too long with the added traffic lights on Ulmerton. This is when I went on a house hunt in Clearwater. I fell in love with Del Oro Groves with the moment I saw it and we bought a fixer upper on San Bernadino St.
We moved in the house in 1990 all energized about our new home and project. We basically lived on one floor. The bathroom in the garage was unusable when we moved in and we fixed it to make it our main bathroom while we completely gutted everything upstairs tearing out the avocado green shag carpet (uck!), the rotted subflooring due to the bad plumbing, removed that old paneling, corrected so many electrical problems, put in new hardware floors, new tile, new double pane windows(deadened all of noise from the airlines flying overhead), added a garage, and the latest addition of a living space with a laundry room and bathroom. Needless to say this will be our last fixer upper.
During this renovation, my two children, Wylie and Eryn were born in 1993 and 1996 and have been raised in this home. It was a small town feel and I met some of the most wonderful teachers during my children’s education at Safety Harbor Elementary. What I love about this neighborhood is the beautiful trees, kayaking in the bay, the parks, my neighbors, the schools (high school not so much), walking to downtown Safety Harbor, access to the trails (we walk frequently), bike riding to the Causeway and all the way to Tampa, and easy access to the airports and I still am close to my family in Tampa.
So what did I fund all of this with? My career has been working for Honeywell in which I was fortunate as an electrical design engineer designing inertial systems in space and defense. Talk about an exciting field. I have worked with teams to design inertial systems that are orbiting and landed on Mars, comets, exploring the Kuiper Belt, exploring the moon and now we have units being prepared for the exploration of the icy moons of Jupiter. I have met some of the most intelligent and brightest people working in this field and it has been an honor. I have also led projects building inertial systems for the Orion Exploration mission. I have worked with Honeywell for over 36 years and soon that will come to a closed chapter in my life.
My husband and I enjoy hiking and we have hiked 300 miles of the Appalachian Trail and a lot of other trails. We now enjoy traveling out west to the Washington State area visiting my daughter who works in a small town known as Washougal that borders the Columbia River. She is a talented artist and she loves her work. She is a tattoo artist and you can Instagram her work by searching for Eryn Rowe Art. Wylie is training to become an EMT and wants to move to the same area. The area they live in reminds me a lot of Safety Harbor; it has that small town feel with a lot of culture but with the view of Mt. Hood and the Columbia River.
