Jan Van Kort

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Son of John Little and Lois Stewart

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Biography

I was born the third child of Lois Maydene Stewart and the first child of John Daniel Little. I was adopted at birth in the state of California by the Van Korts and raised in Napa/Sonoma counties. I grew up with the knowledge of my adoption and remember playing with some of my siblings when I was very young.

At about age 8, my biological mother read an article that I had died and this lead to a disconnect between our two families for 15 years. The article was about my adopted brother's death by gun accident. My bio-father's best friend re-introduced our two families and we became united again.

I got married to Lorretta Masters in Honolulu at a chapel on the base at Pearl Harbor and we had 4 children. Then divorced. Married again to Carolyn Harvey and now we're growing old together. My youngest child Trevor died in a car accident at age 15.

DNA results shows that John Daniel Little was not the son of John Robert Little but actually the son of Clarence E. Williams, so my biological surname should be Williams. Same problem exists for my mother, her DNA father is Loel Frank Morrison, not Russ M Stewart. I went to christian schools for my education and then became a sailor in uncle Sam's canoe club. My trained specialty was RADAR, IFF, LORAN and TACAN. I served at the end of the Vietnam war and was discharged on a medical, got very sick from bacteria in the base swimming pool.

After the Navy, I worked on Radios and CCD's (the early type of solid-state camera's) designing test fixtures and circuit interfaces for taking engineering data. Designed one of the first filter changers for the SPOT satellite, might even still be in orbit, don't know for sure. After doing that for awhile, I got into repairing plasma coating equipment (thin-films) while working at PARC. I became a service engineer and traveled about the country visiting clean-rooms repairing and teaching customers in how to use the equipment. After a bout with cancer I went to work for TiNi Alloy and designed sugar-cube sized mass-flow controllers for use in space-suits, and also built near building sized machinery for treating TiNi materials into a multitude of products (stints, dental-pics, unbreakable eye-glass frames) then I moved to Oregon (from Silicon Valley) and started my own business, Plasma Process Systems (4th state of matter). After doing that for a few years I bought Oregon Online (a WISP) and began serving the area with internet, bringing the world to rural residences in Coos county. I'm still doing that with Beacon Broadband, it's now kind of a hobby. WISP stands for Wireless Internet Service Provider. My hobbies are: Black Powder, Machine Shop, genealogy, computer repair and Linux, not necessarily in that order.

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Jan Van Kort at registration.