United States Marine Corps 1958 - 1962
United States Army 1964 - 1965
Father: John L Britner 1908 - 1969
Mother: Edna Marie Cook 1914 - 2002
Born in Lorain, Ohio as the 5th child of nine children, the family moved to Tiffin, Ohio before he was two years old. In Tiffin, he grew up among his siblings and cousins until the age of eight when in September 1949 the family, then numbering six children, moved to St Petersburg, Florida in a newly purchased 1939 Hudson just for the 1,100 mile trip. Skirting Georgia, the trip took four days.
Surrounded by cousins, aunts, and uncles in Tiffin, Ohio, some of which lived with the family in their two story home in Tiffin, it was only during this four day journey that Larry came to a firm understanding of family as a mom, a dad, and specific siblings, and in this case, one small kitten named Skit Skat which made the journey with the family from Ohio to Florida. (Two of his siblings had passed away in Ohio before this journey; what would have been the oldest, born in 1935, was struck and killed by a car in Tiffin, and a younger, born in 1943, born sickly, had passed away only a month after the birth.)
After arriving in Florida with the home in Ohio still unsold, the family moved about over the next two years in search of affordable rent. It was the fifth home and four elementary schools later that the home in Tiffin had sold, and "home" was established on a large piece of property, 7 of the 8 lots making up the block, on the north outskirts of Saint Petersburg. The property included the home and two wood framed double car garages. On the end of a dead-ending dirt road, the home was relatively secluded with palmetto and pine stretching west without interruption for fourteen blocks nor far removed from Joe's Creek which stretched some six miles on the north side of St Petersburg.
Even at 10, Larry was learning to trap animals along the creek and capture snakes of all kind in the fields of palmettos. Cages were built between the two garages, and a large pit dug in the yard for keeping land turtles and snakes. At one juncture, the family had a four to five foot alligator leashed to a mango tree.
The various critters from snakes to turtles, to alligators, to fox, to skunks, to large fowl were either sold to an "exotic pet" dealer in Tampa or found their way to Ross Allen of the Silver Springs attraction outside of Ocala. Rough camping out on weekends and summer were the norm along with his older brother for the next seven years.
Graduating from Northeast High School of Saint Petersburg in 1958, Larry then joined the Marine Corps; serving four years in Okinawa and Parris Island, South Carolina. Discharged from the Marines in 1962, Larry moved to Leesburg, Florida where he found employment with the local Coca Cola Bottling Company as a bookkeeper. Very shortly thereafter, within months, Larry met his wife to be; Eva Sue "Suzi" Booth.
One year and one day later following their marriage, the couple had their first child while then living in Winter Haven, Florida where Larry was the manager of the local Kentucky Fried Chicken. Four years later, returned to Saint Petersburg, the couple had their second child with Larry then employed as a washer/dryer operator with an industrial uniform service. The first child had been a daughter, Valarie; the second, a son, William.
The next forty years Larry managed a mix of restaurants and grocery outlets. At one juncture he was the district supervisor for Subway in Brevard and Volusia Counties in Florida, but he didn't like it. Too much driving and not enough direct interaction with the employees and customers with most interaction with managers only.
Larry, on the whole, was a people person; active with his high school classmates and periods of activism with local churches.
United States Army 1964 - 1965
Father: John L Britner 1908 - 1969
Mother: Edna Marie Cook 1914 - 2002
Born in Lorain, Ohio as the 5th child of nine children, the family moved to Tiffin, Ohio before he was two years old. In Tiffin, he grew up among his siblings and cousins until the age of eight when in September 1949 the family, then numbering six children, moved to St Petersburg, Florida in a newly purchased 1939 Hudson just for the 1,100 mile trip. Skirting Georgia, the trip took four days.
Surrounded by cousins, aunts, and uncles in Tiffin, Ohio, some of which lived with the family in their two story home in Tiffin, it was only during this four day journey that Larry came to a firm understanding of family as a mom, a dad, and specific siblings, and in this case, one small kitten named Skit Skat which made the journey with the family from Ohio to Florida. (Two of his siblings had passed away in Ohio before this journey; what would have been the oldest, born in 1935, was struck and killed by a car in Tiffin, and a younger, born in 1943, born sickly, had passed away only a month after the birth.)
After arriving in Florida with the home in Ohio still unsold, the family moved about over the next two years in search of affordable rent. It was the fifth home and four elementary schools later that the home in Tiffin had sold, and "home" was established on a large piece of property, 7 of the 8 lots making up the block, on the north outskirts of Saint Petersburg. The property included the home and two wood framed double car garages. On the end of a dead-ending dirt road, the home was relatively secluded with palmetto and pine stretching west without interruption for fourteen blocks nor far removed from Joe's Creek which stretched some six miles on the north side of St Petersburg.
Even at 10, Larry was learning to trap animals along the creek and capture snakes of all kind in the fields of palmettos. Cages were built between the two garages, and a large pit dug in the yard for keeping land turtles and snakes. At one juncture, the family had a four to five foot alligator leashed to a mango tree.
The various critters from snakes to turtles, to alligators, to fox, to skunks, to large fowl were either sold to an "exotic pet" dealer in Tampa or found their way to Ross Allen of the Silver Springs attraction outside of Ocala. Rough camping out on weekends and summer were the norm along with his older brother for the next seven years.
Graduating from Northeast High School of Saint Petersburg in 1958, Larry then joined the Marine Corps; serving four years in Okinawa and Parris Island, South Carolina. Discharged from the Marines in 1962, Larry moved to Leesburg, Florida where he found employment with the local Coca Cola Bottling Company as a bookkeeper. Very shortly thereafter, within months, Larry met his wife to be; Eva Sue "Suzi" Booth.
One year and one day later following their marriage, the couple had their first child while then living in Winter Haven, Florida where Larry was the manager of the local Kentucky Fried Chicken. Four years later, returned to Saint Petersburg, the couple had their second child with Larry then employed as a washer/dryer operator with an industrial uniform service. The first child had been a daughter, Valarie; the second, a son, William.
The next forty years Larry managed a mix of restaurants and grocery outlets. At one juncture he was the district supervisor for Subway in Brevard and Volusia Counties in Florida, but he didn't like it. Too much driving and not enough direct interaction with the employees and customers with most interaction with managers only.
Larry, on the whole, was a people person; active with his high school classmates and periods of activism with local churches.
United States Marine Corps 1958 - 1962
United States Army 1964 - 1965
Father: John L Britner 1908 - 1969
Mother: Edna Marie Cook 1914 - 2002
Born in Lorain, Ohio as the 5th child of nine children, the family moved to Tiffin, Ohio before he was two years old. In Tiffin, he grew up among his siblings and cousins until the age of eight when in September 1949 the family, then numbering six children, moved to St Petersburg, Florida in a newly purchased 1939 Hudson just for the 1,100 mile trip. Skirting Georgia, the trip took four days.
Surrounded by cousins, aunts, and uncles in Tiffin, Ohio, some of which lived with the family in their two story home in Tiffin, it was only during this four day journey that Larry came to a firm understanding of family as a mom, a dad, and specific siblings, and in this case, one small kitten named Skit Skat which made the journey with the family from Ohio to Florida. (Two of his siblings had passed away in Ohio before this journey; what would have been the oldest, born in 1935, was struck and killed by a car in Tiffin, and a younger, born in 1943, born sickly, had passed away only a month after the birth.)
After arriving in Florida with the home in Ohio still unsold, the family moved about over the next two years in search of affordable rent. It was the fifth home and four elementary schools later that the home in Tiffin had sold, and "home" was established on a large piece of property, 7 of the 8 lots making up the block, on the north outskirts of Saint Petersburg. The property included the home and two wood framed double car garages. On the end of a dead-ending dirt road, the home was relatively secluded with palmetto and pine stretching west without interruption for fourteen blocks nor far removed from Joe's Creek which stretched some six miles on the north side of St Petersburg.
Even at 10, Larry was learning to trap animals along the creek and capture snakes of all kind in the fields of palmettos. Cages were built between the two garages, and a large pit dug in the yard for keeping land turtles and snakes. At one juncture, the family had a four to five foot alligator leashed to a mango tree.
The various critters from snakes to turtles, to alligators, to fox, to skunks, to large fowl were either sold to an "exotic pet" dealer in Tampa or found their way to Ross Allen of the Silver Springs attraction outside of Ocala. Rough camping out on weekends and summer were the norm along with his older brother for the next seven years.
Graduating from Northeast High School of Saint Petersburg in 1958, Larry then joined the Marine Corps; serving four years in Okinawa and Parris Island, South Carolina. Discharged from the Marines in 1962, Larry moved to Leesburg, Florida where he found employment with the local Coca Cola Bottling Company as a bookkeeper. Very shortly thereafter, within months, Larry met his wife to be; Eva Sue "Suzi" Booth.
One year and one day later following their marriage, the couple had their first child while then living in Winter Haven, Florida where Larry was the manager of the local Kentucky Fried Chicken. Four years later, returned to Saint Petersburg, the couple had their second child with Larry then employed as a washer/dryer operator with an industrial uniform service. The first child had been a daughter, Valarie; the second, a son, William.
The next forty years Larry managed a mix of restaurants and grocery outlets. At one juncture he was the district supervisor for Subway in Brevard and Volusia Counties in Florida, but he didn't like it. Too much driving and not enough direct interaction with the employees and customers with most interaction with managers only.
Larry, on the whole, was a people person; active with his high school classmates and periods of activism with local churches.
United States Army 1964 - 1965
Father: John L Britner 1908 - 1969
Mother: Edna Marie Cook 1914 - 2002
Born in Lorain, Ohio as the 5th child of nine children, the family moved to Tiffin, Ohio before he was two years old. In Tiffin, he grew up among his siblings and cousins until the age of eight when in September 1949 the family, then numbering six children, moved to St Petersburg, Florida in a newly purchased 1939 Hudson just for the 1,100 mile trip. Skirting Georgia, the trip took four days.
Surrounded by cousins, aunts, and uncles in Tiffin, Ohio, some of which lived with the family in their two story home in Tiffin, it was only during this four day journey that Larry came to a firm understanding of family as a mom, a dad, and specific siblings, and in this case, one small kitten named Skit Skat which made the journey with the family from Ohio to Florida. (Two of his siblings had passed away in Ohio before this journey; what would have been the oldest, born in 1935, was struck and killed by a car in Tiffin, and a younger, born in 1943, born sickly, had passed away only a month after the birth.)
After arriving in Florida with the home in Ohio still unsold, the family moved about over the next two years in search of affordable rent. It was the fifth home and four elementary schools later that the home in Tiffin had sold, and "home" was established on a large piece of property, 7 of the 8 lots making up the block, on the north outskirts of Saint Petersburg. The property included the home and two wood framed double car garages. On the end of a dead-ending dirt road, the home was relatively secluded with palmetto and pine stretching west without interruption for fourteen blocks nor far removed from Joe's Creek which stretched some six miles on the north side of St Petersburg.
Even at 10, Larry was learning to trap animals along the creek and capture snakes of all kind in the fields of palmettos. Cages were built between the two garages, and a large pit dug in the yard for keeping land turtles and snakes. At one juncture, the family had a four to five foot alligator leashed to a mango tree.
The various critters from snakes to turtles, to alligators, to fox, to skunks, to large fowl were either sold to an "exotic pet" dealer in Tampa or found their way to Ross Allen of the Silver Springs attraction outside of Ocala. Rough camping out on weekends and summer were the norm along with his older brother for the next seven years.
Graduating from Northeast High School of Saint Petersburg in 1958, Larry then joined the Marine Corps; serving four years in Okinawa and Parris Island, South Carolina. Discharged from the Marines in 1962, Larry moved to Leesburg, Florida where he found employment with the local Coca Cola Bottling Company as a bookkeeper. Very shortly thereafter, within months, Larry met his wife to be; Eva Sue "Suzi" Booth.
One year and one day later following their marriage, the couple had their first child while then living in Winter Haven, Florida where Larry was the manager of the local Kentucky Fried Chicken. Four years later, returned to Saint Petersburg, the couple had their second child with Larry then employed as a washer/dryer operator with an industrial uniform service. The first child had been a daughter, Valarie; the second, a son, William.
The next forty years Larry managed a mix of restaurants and grocery outlets. At one juncture he was the district supervisor for Subway in Brevard and Volusia Counties in Florida, but he didn't like it. Too much driving and not enough direct interaction with the employees and customers with most interaction with managers only.
Larry, on the whole, was a people person; active with his high school classmates and periods of activism with local churches.
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