Also known as "JK", "Jake", "Jim", and "Kenneth" was born in Houston, Texas on February 25, 1928, son of Joseph Q. & Velma E (Stevens) Wollard. Jim quit school at the age of fifteen, joined the US navy on Feb. 3, 1944 and completed boot and "gunnery school" at the US Naval Training Center, San Diego, CA, was shipped to Pearl Harbor in Aug. 1944, here he was assigned as a Gunners Mate to the USS LCI(G)345. He served onboard the 345 through the invasions of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Philippines. He was discharged in May, 1946 and returned to the Houston. Here he attended the University of Houston under the GI bill, majoring in Engineering. In April 1945 he decided he had enough of the heat and humidity of the gulf coast and said good-bye to his family and caught a bus for Denver, Colorado. On "Juneteenth" he accepted a job with The California CO (part of the Standard Oil CO of California) as a draftsman in Casper, Wyoming. On June 8, 1952, Jim married Carla R (Walker) d/o Orval K & Florence C (Kuntzelman) Walker and in time had sons David Lee and Michael James. He took flying lessons and one cold (-21 degrees) January morning he soloed and shortly thereafter, bough a beautiful red and white Piper Tri-pacer n4750Alpha. He flew 4750 Alpha for a couple years and sold it. After nineteen years with Chevron, in 1968 the Casper office was closed and the family moved to Denver, where they stayed only a few months, at which time he quit Chevron and they returned to Casper. In Casper they bought Variety Ice Cream and opened "The Sweet Tooth" ice cream parlor. After about three years of hard work they sold the ice cream business and Jim went to work for the US Geological Survey for a couple of years. Carla became a stockbroker. A couple of years after that, Jim went on his own as a Independent Petroleum Landman which involved running ownership titles and purchasing Oil and Gas Leases for major oil companies and large independents. This job kept him on the road almost constantly and into the county courthouses in thirty-nine of the western states. Never failing to gather information about any Woollards whose names appeared in the records, thus leading to a huge collection of files on the family. In December 1978, Jim set up a partnership with industry partners and named in Wollex which officed for awhile in the Security Life Building in Denver and later Lakewood. They built a home atop a mountain 45 miles SW of Denver and commuted daily. Carla raised llamas in the name of Mountain High Llamas. In 1990, they sold out and retired to their present home in San Marcos, California. In 1995, Jim took time away from the family research to compile and publish a history of the USS LCI(G)345 which covered the wartime exploits of his navy ship in WWII. Along the way it became necessary "for the old dog to learn new tricks", thus the computer and the website http://www.flash.net/~jwollard