Until Charles was 14, he never went to school a whole year in one place; he went to high school in Farmington, New Mexico from 1944-1949. His sister, Alice Sue (Monroe) Delgado, was born October 22, 1945. Charles contracted transverse myelitis, a polio type paralysis, in February 1947.
Charles graduated from high school in 1949 and went on to achieve a Bachelor's in Business administration in Accounting from the University of New Mexico in 1956. He would then be employed by Linder Burke & Stephenson, CPA's, the predecessor to Peat Marwick Mitchell, CPA's, in 1954-1957 as a junior accountant. The Navajo Tribe employed him in 1958 as Chief Accountant; his longest stint at this point in his life would be with the Midwest Oil Corporation from 1959 - 1969, first as a Tax Accountant and Internal Auditor.
In 1960, Charles married Rachel Esther Monroe: Steven James Monroe was born in 1961, and daughter Linda Sue (Monroe) Franklin was born in 1965. He passed his CPA exam in 1964, and was licensed as a Colorado Certified Public Accountant in 1964; 1965 was the year Charles received his Master's of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Denver.
He was elected as President of both the Colorado Petroleum Accountants Society and Colorado Chapter of Institute of Internal Auditors (Certified Internal Auditor) in 1971, and again in 1985 in the CO Petroleum Accountants Society. In 1969, Charles was employed by Hamilton Brother Oil Company as Internal Auditor, Budget Manager, and various other accounting positions where he remained until 1986.
He became an elder at Westminster Presbyterian Church, elected Treasurer and President of Board of Elders at Westminster Presbyterian Church, was a member of Board of Trustees of United Presbyterian Association from 1978 thru 1989 and was elected Treasurer and President of the Association. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Presbyterian Foundation in New York.
Charles was self-employed as a Certified Public Accountant from 1986-1989. He was also a licensed Colorado real-estate broker and appraiser, and organized Franklin Monroe Group, Inc.: a property management firm and was the Treasurer and President from 1990 through 2006, when he retired.
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