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We grew up in Chicago, Illinois and met while attending the University of Illinois at Navy Pier. We graduated in 1965, got married, and went to work for IBM in Kingston, New York. While working in Kingston we lived in Saugerties, NY. IBM offered to relocate us to Raleigh, NC in 1982 and we jumped at the chance. It was perfect timing as our eldest son (Charles) was starting high school and our youngest son (Daniel) was starting 5th grade.

We both worked as computer programmers for IBM. Chuck's career lasted almost 32 years before taking early retirement in November, 1996. Nancy left IBM in 1968 to be a stay-at-home mom. She went back to work for IBM in 1982 and continued her career until she took a bridge leave of absence in December, 1996. She officially retired in December, 1998.

Now we are living in Wild, Wonderful West Virginia and we are really enjoying retirement!

We enjoy whitewater kayaking and have dabbled in mountain biking (mostly rails-to-trails) and cross-country skiing (especially at Blackwater Falls, which is near Elkins, WV). We also keep busy with our garden.

We are volunteer transporters for the Three Rivers Avian Center (TRAC). When someone calls TRAC with an injured wild bird in our area of West Virginia we get a call from Ron or Wendy Perrone at TRAC asking us to get the bird and transport it to them. Click here to see pictures of some of the birds that we have transported.

When we are indoors, we are likely to be found occupied with our favorite hobbies.

Chuck's hobbies include volunteering as the webmaster for the West Virginia Wildwater Association and the USA Wildwater organization. He also does a fair amount of woodworking, mostly during the winter. Check out Chuck's page to see some of his completed woodworking projects.

Nancy's hobbies include gardening, quilting, painting rocks, and preserving & preparing food (mostly from our garden). See Nancy's page for more about her quilting, rock painting and other handicraft projects.

We are both on Facebook as Chuck Brabec and Nancy Erhardt Brabec, respectively. Or you can send us an email at thebrabecs@gmail.com.

		Charles was born in 1968. He graduated from North Carolina State University with a PHD in Physics and lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife (Kellie) and their 3 dogs, 5(?) cats, and 1 bird. Charles and Kellie both work in Information Technology.
		Daniel was born in 1972. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.A. in Physics and he lives in Steamboat Springs,Colorado with his wife (Jill) and their daughters (Alexa and Haley). Daniel works for ProBuild and Jill is a partner at Holloway, Brabec & Karet, P.C. Alexa was born in October, 2004. When she was born, we officially became Grandpa Fuzzy and Granny Nan. Haley was born in June, 2007. We don't get to see them very often; When we do we like to spoil them.