related one-to-many objects not obtained via JPA2

Must be something very silly...
Have a simple one to many relationship...One user related to many primaryPeople
And the entity code captures this well as shown below:
User.java
@OneToMany(mappedBy = "fkUserId", cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
private Set<PrimaryPerson> primarypeople;

PrimaryPerson.java
@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name = "fk_user_id", referencedColumnName = "pk_user_id", nullable = false)
private User fkUserId;

In my service layer..have this
public User findUser(java.lang.Integer id) {
return userRepository.findOne(id);
}

But when I get the user back it is not populated with a list/set of primaryPeople
Why is there no eager-fetching? Should be by default.

I have this code too for the UserRepository
@Repository
public interface UserRepository extends JpaRepository<User, Integer>, JpaSpecificationExecutor<User> {
...
}
Also pom says this
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.0-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1.Final</version>
</dependency>

I could do it via a Specification. or a NamedQuery..but that would be crude when using JPA
This kinda thing is out of the box..so what is amiss?

I plan to use this solution from one Graham Smith..
http://www.wobblycogs.co.uk/index.ph...n-a-collection

Basically it schools me "OneToMany relationship is lazy loaded by default under JPA"
So will try this: @OneToMany( fetch= FetchType.EAGER )