Northup, Chuck

Charles (Chuck) Northup was born, grew up, and married in San Jose. He served in the U.S. Army in the Philippines and Japan at the end of Work War II, as part of the Army of Occupation. He attended college and spent his first 40 or so years in San Jose before moving to Santa Rosa to engage in his chosen occupation of writing for industrial companies. He remarried a woman experienced in guiding tours to Japan and traveled numerous times to that country. When computers took over his occupation, he joined with his wife's business by publishing Japanese patterns for clothing, quilts, and crafts. T...