A Denver woman made her first skydive in 1959, and she has a goal of reaching 1,000 jumps. She's over halfway to her goal.
DENVER — Kim Knor has been skydiving most of her life. Her first jump was in 1959 when she was 20 years old. Knor says she was in Chicago when she first overheard a group of Army reservists talk about a skydiving club.
"They didn't have any American team for the World Champions. They had men going but not women," said Knor. "When I got a job in Washington, the guy that defected my 'chute in 1962 was from Yugoslavia and a friend of ours in Washington got us back together, and we got married in three months," said Knor.
"My husband died and the kids were growing up and then the grandkids started coming and I started jumping again," she said.
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