Vernon was raised during the great depression and worked to helpsupport his family while growing up. After marring and startinga family, he got a job as a trainman on the B&O, (Chessie)Railroad. He worked at this job until retirement. He alsoserved as the treasurer for the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.Vernon was active for many years as a scout master of troop 71in Salamanca, NY. Under his leadership the troop traveledextensively to such places as the Philmont Scout Ranch in NewMexico, on Canoe Trips down the Allegany, including one fromSalamanca to Pittsburgh, (before the Kinsua Dam was built). Inhis younger years he was an avid hunter and fisherman. Heremained a fisherman and later took up golf with a passion. (Hewas about a 18 handicap)Family tradition says that Vernon and Eleanor eloped to Buffaloto get married. His Aunt Winnie Milks was the mediator when hereturned home with his new bride as considerable frictionexisted between the two families, supposedly over religion. Inany event no marriage record has been yet located for Vernon andEleanor.After Eleanor died in 1969, he remarried Evelyn Barker,traveling extensively until she died in 1988. Shortly afterthe death of Evelyn, Vernon's emphysema, aggravated by a bout ofpneumonia, forced him to exist connected to a oxygen tank. Hespent his final years in an adult care facility in Eustus,Florida.Vernon died November 25, 1992, from a combination of heartfailure and emphysema.