From Spokane.

He was the Norman Neal that Mum and Dad would sometimes visit, and often talk about. Worked a long time at U. Wisconsin, specialising in corn, maize, agronomy, genetics, etc. Planty kinds of things. PhD in agronomy and genetics, 1935, from Wisconsin.

He was Dave Neal’s father, the Dave that I stayed with once in San Diego when I got stuck in LA.