Thanks for all the help here. Here's what I found:
Checked the battery posts with a voltmeter and as soon as I flipped the headlight switch to ON the voltage dropped to nothing.
Took the battery in for testing and sure enough it was faulty.
Brought the replacement battery home, installed it and manually pushed the starter switch on top of the starter with my fingers. Nothing.
After a little sleuthing, I removed the switch from the top of the newly acquired, NAPA rebuilt starter. I could apply the positive battery cable to the starter's copper terminal and it would spin.
Checked the new switch and completely pushed in the copper contacts were not touching one another. I found an old switch on a dead starter, checked it and it worked.
Back in business - finally.
Again, many thanks for the help here.
