Updated 05/06/06

1961 MHS Classmate Bios

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Joseph H. (Jay) Aldridge

Since we left West Texas: RESIDENCE: Dale City, VA since 1974. MARRIED: July 16,1963 to Shirley Jean (Shortes) Aldridge. Met her in Odessa on a blind date with Douglas Moore when on leave from the Army and was smitten with her pristine snowy beauty, quiet spirit, godliness (I wasn't far along there, but saw it as a real 'plus' in a wife) and her deep thoughtfulness. Determined to not let her get away. Asked her to marry me and was crushed when she laughed... But it worked out all right, and she was able to stay with me in my 'formative years' (the bad stuff) until now. No happier or more blessed man than myself walks, I am sure of it. Shirley is a Special Needs Attendant on a school bs for 22 years, and has some stories to tell, as this is a unique job. CHILDREN: DAUGHTER: (Very proud of her) Kellie Kristiene Aldridge born June 16, '64 in Homestead AFB Hospital. (The town literally blew off the map a few years ago, in a hurricane.) Not married yet. Manager of a department of Giant Food Store here locally. "Looking" for a man with qualifications that probably doesn't exist. Her friends are a group of internationals from anyplace you can name, except China, so far. DAUGHTER: Ahika (Eye-kah) Monique (goes by Mona??) Frayser, born in Midland 1967, married, has identical twin daughters of most precious and sweet spirits, smart as whips and beautiful beyond belief. Mona is an EMT, bank teller, medical assistant; home schooler, etc. etc. and her husband is a paid fireman and paramedic in Richmond, VA. He also is a taxidermist, raises thousands of Christmas trees and many types of ornamental trees, raises cattle, breeds American cockers and beagles, has chickens (for the girls to care for and sell eggs so as to be able to care for money, animals, and develop a business sense and math abilities to complement their home-schooling.) They own 24 acres of land and outbuildings and equipment outright and have very little left to pay off. Sooooo proud of them! All apparently in excellent health. Live not far from in-laws who are their best friends and second parents (husband's parents, her in-laws). DOG: Jack; Blond, intelligent, neutered, sweet-spirited, loving, but stubborn, American Cocker Spaniel, 7 years old. Loves to wander and explore and then try to find his way back across the fence. See http://community.webtv.net/The1ShoeBox/PatronJack (or MasterJack, I forget) or find the poem on the list at http://community.webtv.net/The1ShoeBox (which I add to daily.) CAREERS and RETIREMENTS: '61-'63 light aircraft mechanic, Fulda, et al Germany, '63-'67 Homestead AFB, FL as analyst and Spanish linguist; '67-'68 Berlin, Germany, analyst and German linguist; '68-'71 Civilian Status degree program Orange Coast College. Costa Mesa, CA; '71-'74 US European Command HQ, Stuttgart, Germany; Mar-Jul '74 US Army War College, Carlisle, PA, '74-'80 various assignments incl. the Pentagon, as Systems Analyst; retired. '80-'82 Tour and commuter bus driver; '82-'95 US Army Military Personnel Center as systems analyst; retired '95. EDUCATION: HS GED (Texas); Orange Coast College, CA; U. of MD (Berlin campus); FL St. U., Miami-Dade Jr. Col.; Church and Family Bible Institute (2 yrs) Tulsa, OK. SUMMARY: After a 20-year Army career with 6 years in Homestead FL (hurricanes, yes); 2 years on campus at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa CA (earthquakes, yes); and 6 1/2 total years in various parts of Germany. We ended our career with 6-7 years at the Pentagon, retired, drove a tour bus and commuter for 2 years and signed on at the US Army Military Personnel Center (which has had many names) as a systems analyst and worked there 13 years until Bill said we could go early. I beat feet and retired for the second time by rolling the Army govt. time into the Fed. govt time and now draw a small pension from the Fed Govt. BUSINESSES: Started two EMI/RFI (emissions) businesses (one stolen), one at www.BemaShield.com (participated in the patents of both companies) and have a website for a full-service synthetic lubricants business AMSOIL, Inc. (22 years) http://www.LubeDealer.Com/EternaLube and two websites for restoration and maintenance of optimal health; Mannatech, Inc. out of Dallas (2+ years) http://www.MannaPages.com/LifeLeaf and http://www.FreedomResources.org/LifeLeaf HEALTH: Have regained most of what was lost in hard living and rough times and overwork to make ends meet in a high-dollar area. HOBBIES/INTERESTS: Travel, flying, Hovercraft, HAM radio, designing, writing, Bible and archeology, internet and research, youth counseling JHAldridge@WebTV.Net; Joseph H. (Jay) Aldridge; (703) 670-3433; 14310 Fallbrook Lane, Dale City (Woodbridge), VA 22193; 25 mi. S of Wash DC. Check out Jay's web site:  http://community.webtv.net/THE1SHOEBOX

Billy J Andrews

After graduation in '61, I went to Eastern New Mexico Univ., then to Odessa Jr. College. On one of my visits home I met and fell in love with a short, brown eyed doll. Delores & I were married in March 1964, and we lived in Monahans until 1967. We moved to Carlsbad New Mexico, worked there until the summer of 1967. Decided to move to Houston where I began my electrical career. After three beautiful daughters we moved to Alvin, Texas where I started my own electrical business. Our Daughters have blessed us with good son-in-laws and 8 wonderful grandchildren (7 boys I girl). Delores and I still go to Monahans to visit my mother (Dorothy) and brothers Jimmy (Midland) and John (Monahans). My hobbies are fishing and hunting along with enjoying our grandchildren. Looking forward to seeing everyone Labor Day !!!!!!!

Morris Anthony

My Occupation is Stores Clerk III in the Department of Biology at the University of Texas at Arlington. I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with emphasis in Ecology, Environmental Biology and Natural History from the University of Texas at Arlington (Graduated Fall 1984) and an Assoc. Arts and Science degree from the Mountain View Campus, Dallas County Community College District (Graduated Fall 1981). Honors/Awards: Member, Omega Omega chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, National Honor society of Jr/Community Colleges; President, Omega Omega chapter, Fall 1981; Who's Who in American Jr/Community Colleges, 1981. I attended: Sul Ross State University, Fall 1965; Odessa Jr. College, Fall 1962; Texas A&M University, Fall 1961. I married Mary Loraine (Lory) Foster in March, 1966 and was divorced in the Spring of 1986. I lived in and out of Monahans until January, 1966, when I moved to Euless, Texas. Moved to Grand Prairie in July, 1966 and to my current residence in May of 1969. My hobbies are amateur birding, camping, and moderate hiking.

Barbara Applegate (Daniel)

After graduating from MHS, I went to college and worked, then fortune smiled on me and I met Don in Lubbock in 1964. We got married in October 1964, moved to Amarillo in 1965 and lived there for three years. After Don completed his Master's degree in 1968, we moved to Denver and have been here since, except for two years in Duncanville, TX from 1986-88. We love living in Colorado, with its wonderful climate and beautiful scenery. We have three kids and nine grandkids. Our daughter, Theresa, and her family live in Bowling Green, KY; our older son, John, and his family live in Raleigh, NC; and our younger son, Bill, and his family live 20 minutes from us. It's a delight watching our grandkids grow; what a joy they are! Don works in an IT-related business and also ran his own large real estate company for ten years. I started working at Martin Marietta Aerospace in 1982, worked at Data Documents in Duncanville for the two years we were there, then returned to Martin (now Lockheed Martin) in 1988 and am still there. I'm in the information systems group, love working with computers, and will probably continue to work for quite a while longer. Don and I both enjoy being busy and probably always will be involved in something. We started raising and showing Morgan horses in 1978, but now we're down to only two mares. We use them occasionally for pleasure riding and driving, but mostly they just stand around and eat and look pretty. We've also had Labrador Retrievers for more than 25 years, and they're an important part of our family, too. When we're not busy with work and other necessary tasks, our time is devoted to our grandkids, computer-related activities, reading, and enough exercise to keep us in relatively good condition. (That last item becomes more of a challenge with each passing year!)

Laura Armentrout (Hutcheson)

I left Odessa in 1974 and moved to Houma, La where I lived for a year until I went to work for U.P.S. and I moved to New Orleans. I have lived in Belle Chasse most of that time. I have worked for U.P.S. for 25 yrs and I just retired 6-12-00. I worked as a delivery driver. My husband has been retired for about two and a half yrs. He worked for Process Technical Services and traveled quite a lot with them. We have three children, two boys and a girl (Kenneth, Tory and Alvin Jr.) we also have three granddaughters (Dana, Hope and Kristin) they are 15 yrs and 11yrs old, (Hope and Kristin are twins). I am really looking forward to seeing everyone again and getting acquainted again, please keep us updated on the reunuion.

Kenneth Bailey

Was born near Paris, Texas (Detroit, Tx, pop. 800) where there were trees, creeks, ponds and grass. In >55 (6^th grade), we moved to Monahans where there were none of the above and things smelled different. There was even a place called AMonahans Sandhills State Park@ where absolutely nothing grew. They even charged to get in there. I couldn=t believe it! I met every Abully@ in town, beat Mary Ann Kent in an essay contest (she=s never forgiven me), found out what a sandstorm was and didn=t fish anymore. I tried to get a job at the ice house but Roy Lee said I didn=t have the Aproper papers@. I enjoyed baseball and hated football. Worked on my Dad=s milk truck and spent most of my spare time in my bedroom with the door and windows closed, building plastic model planes and ships. Must have built 200 of them. I really enjoyed that. I think it was the paint and glue. Finally graduated without honors after having gotten only one black eye, one broken nose, one broken leg and a concussion in football. Tried Texas Tech for three semestersBdidn=t work out. Saw no future working with Wayne and Sheridan on a pulling unit so I decided to travel. Joined the Air Force (64-68). Traveled to Viet Nam in 67 to defend the rights of people to protest and then found out that I was what they were protesting. Didn=t get killed. My first marriage (66-80) resulted in two daughters-Katherine in 69 and Anna in 74. My second marriage (88-present) was to Randie Kay. Randie was born in 61. Does that year strike a bell? We have a daughter, Courtney, who was born in 93. It don=t get no better than this!!! My two oldest daughters haven=t had children, so I had my own grandchild. I was trained in electronic in the Air Force and then spent 23 years as a computer Tech. when I got out (68-91). Lived in El Paso from 71-95 and then moved to Tyler. I=m finally back where there are trees, creeks, ponds and grass. I=ve lost my hair, got glasses, gained 45 pounds, have pains where I didn=t know there were muscles and survived a heart attack in May of 1999. Randie says I have to help her get Courtney through college before I go, so I guess I=ll be here for a while. Life is GOOD! P.S. Seeing your guys again if fantastic!

Ron Barker

Beatrice (Bea) Barrett (Rosier)

Well, I married a guy from out of town only two weeks after high school graduation. Nobody at school knew him, and when we left Monahans, I lost touch with everyone! We moved a lot, and finally, we divorced in 1975. I attended Texas Women's University on a National Science Foundation Scholarship. I started working for a major insurance company in 1967 as an accounting clerk. They moved me to Houston in 1974, to Wichita KS in 1975 and back to Dallas in 1977 - and when I retired from the administration end of the business in 1989, I was a Senior Business Manager in the largest Agency they had. Two months after I retired, I went into sales (with the same company) and achieved recognition as Top 20 in my first year, Top 10 in my second year, and qualified for sales recognition clubs from 1990 through 2000. I've recently decided to retire again, but I've signed a new contract with another major company. So, you might say I'm starting my third career. I've traveled more in the past few years, and am enjoying trips to Scotland, Ireland and Spain this year. We never had children, so I've been on my own since 1975 - but I've really enjoyed it a lot. Last Christmas, my niece gave me a puppy - Zoe - and she's absolutely delightful. I'm totally crazy about her, and I find myself doing all those things that 'dog' people do that I swore I'd never do. I like to make things and have lots of hobbies - among them, sewing, knitting, crochet, photography, piano, painting, painting china and computer art. I'm really looking forward to our big reunion next year and hoping for many mini-reunions between now and then.

Carter Barron (Casteel)

I left Monahans to go to UT where I met and married Tom Casteel, graduating in 1965. We had Cheryl in 1963 and Barron in 1971. I taught School for 16 years before going to Law School at age 39. We had lived in Austin until 1973 when we moved to New Braunfels to live on the Guadalupe River. I became County Judge of Comal County in 1990 and retired in 1998 to practice law with my son, Barron. Our daughter, Cheryl, is a CPA and financial manager of our Utilities and the mother of our two grandchildren, Catherine (9) and Morrigan (6). We hope she will attend law school in the next year and join our firm. Tom is now a kept man retired and playing with grandchildren and being a wonderful gopher and manager of our rental house business. We have truly been blessed as a family with only a few bumps in the road, the biggest being the Great Flood of 1998 when our home had 10 feet of water and we lost all but what we were wearing. We now have a new home and new stuff and all is okay. Our Son, Barron, married in 1999 to Michele, a school teacher, and we are hoping for more little ones as they brighten our lives in a most wonderful way. I continue, along with our children, to be active in politics and charities; however Tom and I try to devote more time to ourselves and traveling. We will be in Monahans for the reunion.

Betty Bickle (May)

I have lived in Stinnett, Texas since 1964 with my husband of 40 years (Dec.29^th, 1960). We had 4 children together. The oldest, John, was killed in a motorcycle wreck at age 24; our only daughter Pam, is an RN in cardiology and has given us 2 grandsons, John Dillon and Christopher; Bill D., our middle child, recently married the mother of his daughter Mary Kate; and last but not least our son Stephen, with a degree from Texas A&M in cartography manages a cash register company in Amarillo, but a map-maker he is not. My husband William has been retired for 3 years from Diamond Shamrock Corp. I retired this year (2000) after 20 years of teaching Biology to high school students and Anatomy/Physiology for a local Jr. College. My favorite job (fun, but not enough money) was with the National Park Service. I worked 9 years as a ranger in Interpretation at Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument. (PS: I can make arrowheads from flint using only rocks and deer antlers-- not a very useful skill in modern times). Hope to see all of you 2001 Labor Day weekend, at Monahans!

Linda Breed (Sligh)

After graduating, I attended TWU. While there I married Jon Sligh and moved to Canyon. We both attended WTSU and I became secretary for the dean of the college. After graduation we moved to Dallas and then back to Odessa. Jon worked at the hospital in Odessa and I managed an apartment building. After a couple of years we moved to San Antonio and Jon got his Master of Science in Health Care Administration and I worked writing tariffs for the government. We then moved to Abilene where he worked in the administration of a hospital there and I worked for Mayflower Moving Company. Several years later we moved to Lima, Ohio (a town between Dayton and Toledo). Jon worked in the administration staff in a hospital there and I spent my time raising our two sons and shoveling a lot of snow (ugh). During this time I came to really know God and have devoted my life to Him. We lived 8 years in Ohio. Now we live in Austin and Jon is a part of the administrative staff at Austin Diagnostic Clinic and is primarily responsible for the building of that hospital and clinic. I was diagnosed as having the disease Lupus several years ago and now battle that each day. I am staying at home now and baby sitting two little girls just for the purpose of keeping me fit or giving me fits (hehe). We have two sons of whom we are very proud. Jon Wesley graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in Computer Science. He is a software developer for a large company and is based here in Austin. He is single. Scott, (our oldest son) graduated from the University of Texas and from Texas A&M Medical School. He is now a surgeon. His wife is also a medical doctor. They live in Santa Monica, California. We have two grandsons of whom we are very proud and try to spend as much time as possible with. Jon still loves to play golf and I paint and do a little gardening. I send a high five to the best graduating class of MHS, the class of 61. God bless you all.

Pat Brown (Ellison)

After graduation, I attended Lubbock Christian College, leaving there in Feb. 62 to marry my Army sweetheart, Gene Ellison. We immediately left Texas for Seattle where we have been since. Gene retired in '95 after 35 years at the Boeing Company. I spent 20 years in the mortgage lending industry and left only when ill health forced me into retirement. We have two children, Kiersten, mother of our two wonderful granddaughters and Brian, still single at 36. Our 17 year old granddaughter has lived with us for the past two years, and keeps us on our toes and gives us great joy. Gene and I spend our free time enjoying life on our boat. We usually spend at least a month sailing the waters of Puget Sound and the inside waters of Vancouver Island. Gene also teaches sailing and does yacht deliveries up and down the west coast. We have also raced our boat in local races, usually doing pretty good. We have chartered sailboats in exotic places and intend to do more of that, once our "grandkid obligations" are fulfilled. I am thrilled to once again be in touch with old friends from the class of '61 and look forward to the reunion this fall.

Bill Campbell

I joined the US Army after school and spent 10 years in the Army with 2 tours in Vietnam. I became an alcoholic and wound up living on the streets of Houston, Texas (a wine-o). I joined Alcoholics Anonymous and have been sober for 13 years now. Today, I own a computer shop. I am a system builder and service the local community. My web address is:   http://www.ih2000.net/billcamp

Delores Carney (Smith)

I am currently teaching in the Education Department at Sul Ross State University. I have B.S. and M.A. degrees from Sul Ross and an Ed. D. degree from Texas A&M at Commerce. My hobbies are grandchildren, traveling and reading.

Wanda Carr (Cates)

A short while after graduation in 1961, I married Barry Roberts. We lived in Bryan for a short while after we married before returning to settle down in Monahans. In 1962, twins (a girl and boy), Jarri Jean and Barry Gene were born and four years later Jennifer Beth was born. Within a year after that the marriage had unraveled and I moved to Marfa to be near my parents. We were divorced in 1967.

Marfa was a great place to live, but it was hard to find a job that paid enough to support three children. I was the bookkeeper for the Ford dealership during the day and worked at the Paisano Hotel at night. At one point, I had five jobs at the same time. Working at the hotel gave me the opportunity to meet some very interesting people. The movie Andromeda Strain was filmed in Shafter, a small mining town south of Marfa. Robert Wise was the director and he stayed at the hotel. A year later another movie was made in Ft Davis. The producer and director stayed at the hotel. I was asked to do the payroll for the crew, which included Cesar Romero and Barbara Hale. The crew stayed at a motel in Fort Davis while filming. The children and I would go over and watch the filming on the weekends and eat with the crew in the dinning room. After supper, Cesar Romero (the Joker in Batman on TV at the time), would chase the children and pretend to be the Joker. I actually had a scene in the movie that made the screen for about 30 seconds--so much for my 15 minutes of fame!! The movie was about the black cavalry troops stationed at Ft Davis during the late 1800's. The title was Men of the Tenth while filming, but later was changed to Red, White and Black. I saw part of it on late night TV some years later--it was so bad even I couldn't watch it. I have looked for it on video but could not find it, but it was great fun to have had the experience.

In 1970, a friend I met working at the Ford dealership, Senator Wayne Connolly, who had a ranch out of Marfa, offered to get me a job working at the Senate in Austin so I wouldn't have to work so many jobs. I moved to Austin and worked in Senator Jack Hightower's office for the 1971 Legislative Session. When that was over, I got a job in public accounting. I worked for Seidman and Seidman, a national accounting firm as supervisor of the General Business Services department bookkeeping for various types of businesses.

I met my current husband , Loyd Cates, in 1978. He worked for the State Comptroller and still does. We got married in 1986. We have three grandchildren, Somantha,14, (Jennifer's), Kevin, 8, and Aimee, 2, (Jarri's). They all live in Austin. Barry lives in Midland and has never married.

I am now working for a group of urologists, who had been my clients at the accounting firm. I wanted a change from accounting in 1988 and started working for the doctors as a surgery and procedure scheduler. I plan to work a couple of more years. Then my husband and I plan to build a house on our land five miles from Smithville. Several years ago, we bought twenty acres of oak and pine covered land and had an acre pond built and stocked it with fish. We love going there on weekends to escape the noise of the big city and look forward to moving there for the peace and quite.

Larry Carter

Moved to CA in 1977. Have worked for NBC in Burbank for 22 years, primarily on "Days of Our Lives" and "The Tonight Show". I spent most of my life after graduation in radio and TV. I've been a disc jockey, beauty show pageant emcee (Miss West Texas), kiddie show tv host, done sports, weather and news both on radio and tv. I've spent my career at NBC behind the scenes. I started in the NBC Carpenter Shop building all the sets for everything from game shows to the Tonight Show. Now, I'm a foreman in the Scenic Operations department and spend most of my time making sure that all the sets needed for "Days Of Our Lives" are ready for set up for the next days' taping schedule. I have also spent about the last 15 years as emcee for our national and state rallies for the motorcycle organization that I belong to. It's called the Gold Wing Touring Association and we have over 10,000 members around the US and Canada. Of course, I continue to sing for various weddings and funerals as the need arises and have almost become the "official" National Anthem singer for a lot of different functions, both through my stagehands union and the motorcycle group. One son, Brett, in Texas and one Grandson, Josh, 11 years old. I'm single and ride a Honda Gold Wing Motorcycle.

Carolyn Cates (Wylie)

I graduated from UT-Austin in 1965 with a double major in French and elementary education; taught fifth grade in Houston for a year but wasn't very good at that and retreated back to UT, where I got an MA in French in 1969. In 1969-1971, I was an instructor in French at Texas A&I University in Kingsville (now a branch of Texas A&M), but left that to move back to Austin and marry Hal Wylie, a member of the UT French department, in July 1971. Since 1973, I have worked at the University of Texas Press, first as a copyeditor and then, since 1991, as managing editor. (That means I supervise the other copyeditors; I don't have any say about which books we publish.) Meanwhile, in 1978 Hal and I had a son, Dennis, who is now going into his fifth year at UT, having changed majors several times. He expects to graduate next spring with a double major in biology and physics. Hal is now an associate professor at UT and plans to retire in January. His interests include photography, art, and African/Caribbean literature; I spend most of my spare time gardening (mostly flowers) and reading (historical mysteries, among other things). I expect to keep working for several more years--or at least until Dennis become self-supporting! It has been wonderful to get back in touch with Monahans people again, and I'm really looking forward to the reunion.

Neil Clonts

Deceased--2001.  After graduation, I worked for Gulf at the Warren Plant in Wickett as a mechanic operation supervisor. I then moved to Canadian as plant supervisor and advanced to plant manager. Was transferred to Breckenridge, Texas as operation superintendent. I was then transferred to Tulsa’s department of engineer as construction supervisor. From there, I worked in 6 states: Texas; New Mexico; Oklahoma; North Dakota; Louisiana; and Mississippi. Worked a total of 30+ years for Gulf-Warren-Chevron before I retired in Breckenridge. My main hobby is metal work–designing and making metal work for home and office. I fish when Hubbard Creek Lake is up and the dock is floating (ha,ha).

Tommie Collins (Long)

Left Monahans right after graduation and moved back for short time then moved to Burbank, California for 7 years then to Arlington. Worked 16 years for an accounting firm (the one Patsy Mooring and John Ratliff are working for). Now I'm with American Airlines. Love my work and have no intentions of retiring soon. Also have a small catering business. Did Mary Kay for a while until I got so busy with Mother. Guess I am blessed because I fly to Monahans every weekend. I feel like I live in Arlington and Monahans. Fly out on Friday morning and come back on the first flight on Monday. Mother is 91 and still lives alone so I go and mow, clean house, grocery shop and etc. so she will still be able to say in her home where she has lived over 50 years. Have been married 30 plus years and have one son, Darrell, 38 who does life size bronze sculptures. Check out his work on web site:  http://www.TXSculpture.com and click on Darrell Davis. He is married but no grand kids yet. My husband, John retired from the City of Arlington and teaches "How to Grow Roses" at UTA Continuing Education. We did have over 500 rose bushes but have lost several. He belongs to Dallas and Ft Worth rose societies. He has had to slow down since his heart surgery and hip replacements. I have had a very blessed and busy life. Love to read and do crafts. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Monahans.

Richard Counts

My current occupation is Production Foreman for BTA Oil Producers. I have worked for them for 27 years. I have a daughter and a son (who passed away in 1980). I also have two wonderful grandchildren. For hobbies, I enjoy hunting and fishing.

Jack Crouse

I graduated from N.T.S.U. in Jan. of 1967 and started my banking career in Odessa in 1968. I moved to Kermit in 1971 with the First National Bank. When the bank was sold in 1990, I moved to Stanton for a brief time, and then transferred to Midland American Bank in Midland. The carrot was dangled to move back to Kermit in 1998. The result is I am at the same physical facility as before although the name has changed a few times.

Karen and I have been blessed with three fine children (thanks to Karen). Also, at the present time we have 4 darling grandchildren. I love to play golf although my handicap reflects my ability. Fishing used to be a good pastime until most of the lakes dried up.

Thanks to all that have worked so hard on this reunion. It is an honor and privilege to be a 1961 graduate of MHS with such fine people.

Barbara Davis (Dykes)

Deceased--2005. Barbara Davis Dykes was married to Buck Bartell and had three children. Brett, one of her sons, is still living and he has blessed her with two beautiful grandchildren. She also was an artist and lived at the Lake near Coleman. She divorced Buck and later, remarried Jim Dykes. At the age of 41, she had a massive stroke. She and Jim divorced some time later. After her Mother died, her son was going to care for her in his home. However, Barbara had recovered enough to want her independence, so she chose to move to Holiday Hill care center, in Coleman, Texas. She still sees her grandchildren here in town, yet she has control over her life, as much as possible. She has many friends here and she never misses an opportunity to have fun! Barbara is an "overcomer", and she takes part in the life of the center. She goes on outings with the Activity Director and other residents and attends every activity they have here. Barbara truly enjoys her life, despite her loss of most of her speech and some paralysis on her right side. Her vision is impaired but she plays a pretty mean game of Bingo!! She has really enjoyed getting in touch with her former classmates through the internet and many old friends have made personal visits to see her here. She has been looking forward to her class reunion. Barbara has made lemonade out of the lemons that life has handed her. If you go to the reunion homecoming, you will surely recognize that same sweet, determined girl you knew in high school!!

Tommy Emanuel

I went to college at Abilene Christian University. After college, I worked for Sinclair Oil and Gas in Monahans and Midland until 1968. I then moved to Baytown, Texas and started to work for Exxon Refinery. While there, I supervised several areas during my 30+ year career with them. I retired in October 1999. I stay busy playing golf and doing lots of "honey doo’s". Billie and I have been married since July, 1988. It was the second marriage for both of us. Missi, our oldest daughter, and three grandchildren live in Bedford, Texas. My parents are enjoying good health and live in Cisco, Texas.

Dixie Fambrough (Kirchmeier)

After graduating from MHS, I attended Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene and graduated with a BBA in Business-Education. I then went to New Mexico and taught at Moriarty High School (near Albuquerque) for one year, From there it was on to Denver to teach in a very large high school, and then back to Albuquerque in 1967 to teach 5^th grade for another year. After three years of public school teaching, I finally figured out that wasn't for me and went to work at Sandia Labs in Albuquerque teaching computer classes and doing training films.

I met my wonderful husband Garry while in New Mexico. We married in 1970 a year after he got out of the army. After he got his degree at the University of New Mexico in 1973, we moved to the Ft. Worth area. We lived in Euless for five years and while there adopted our son Matthew in 1975. Then it was a move to Richardson so Garry could be closer to work (data processing management). In 1979 we adopted our daughter Karah. After living in Richardson for 20 years, we moved to Rowlett (east of Dallas near Lake Ray Hubbard) in the fall of 1999. Our son Matthew has blessed us with two beautiful grandchildren Dakota 6 (boy) and Cheyenne 2 (girl). Of course, they are the fights of our life.

While raising my children, I volunteered my life away with many activities: school, church, adoption support group, etc., etc.). For several years we kept girls in our home who were in the process of placing their babies for adoption-an interesting experience, needless to say. I also worked for many years at the Dallas Apparel Mart during market time. From 1995 to 1999, I did substitute teaching on a daily basis at Berkner High School in Richardson.

Garry and I have always been involved with musical groups. He plays lead, bass, rhythm, and steel guitars. While in college, he had a band and played weekends to help with college expenses. We now have a country gospel group (6 of us) and sing and play whenever we can. Garry works for Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) and travels constantly so it's hard to make time for our music. He had a heart attack on January 11 of this year, but he's doing well and looking forward to riding his Harley and playing his music many more years. I keep busy with my grandchildren (they are presently living with us) and am involved with a Moms In Touch prayer group (for 15 years) that meets weekly to pray for our children and schools. I also love to travel and manage to get to Europe once a year. It looks like Australia may be on tap for this year. My parents are still doing well. They're 83 and 82 and live out in the country from Breckenridge on my Dad's old family farm. I appreciate all the hard work our committee is doing for our reunion and look forward to seeing everyone in September.

Lanell Farr (Simmons)

Paul and I were married just after my junior year in high school. I Finished high school as we promised my Dad that I would if he would let us get married . We had 4 children, all born in Monahans. Paul was transferred to Midland in 1968 and I have lived here ever since.

Paul had a massive heart attack in 1985 and passed away. I was heart broken, but I was blessed with four wonderful kids. Our eldest son was an all-american in track and field in high school and in college. He won nationals in the discus throw. He now teaches school and coaches in Belton , Texas. He and his wife Sheryl have given us 3 wonderful grandchildren. Renae, our second child lives in Keller, Tx and has one precious daughter, Alyssa. Renae's husband, Tim is a computer programer and works for IBM in Ft. Worth. Teresa, our third child, lives in Nashville, Tx. Her husband is an engineer and works for Williams, Inc. They have three children. Our fourth child, Randy was also all-american in track and field. He was a hurdler. He attended college in San Angelo and is an accountant. He works for Shell Chemical in Houston. (From reading Max Howorth's bio, that is where he worked, too) Randy said he knew Max. Randy and his wife have one daughter and are expecting another baby in April.

I have worked for the U S Postal Service for 23 years and am looking forward to retiring and spending more time with my grandchildren. I am looking forward to the reunion and seeing you all again.

Odell Farr

My wife will be attending with me. Her name is LaVonne (Woody) Farr. We will have our 38th anniversary on the 21st of July. No one will know her because she is from Corpus Christi. We met at a church bible camp in the Kerrville area when we were 12 years old! I wrote to her all during our high school years. We have 4 children and 7 grandchildren! I will send more later on the biography.

Bonnie Fausett Wood

Following our ‘61 partying, and despite my parents’ valiant attempts to help me find my "talent" in: 1) modeling school and college at the University of Texas at El Paso; 2) commercial art school in Los Angeles; and 3) secretarial school in Odessa, I eloped to Juarez with an "Odessa guy".

Thirteen years later, in 1975, I found myself in the Houston area, divorced and with two lovely children to raise. That pretty much says it ALL about the next 15 years. I WORKED HARD! (Office/Secretarial-usually two or three jobs at a time).

Once my children were gone from home, I went back to school for training to be a licensed massage therapist. There, I finally found my "talent".

Though the past three years I’ve been on a forced hiatus with a broken wrist from a fall, and a broken heart from the loss of my son (by a drunk driver), I am blessed with a beautiful granddaughter by him, as well as two wonderful grandsons by my daughter and the longevity of both my parents.

I look forward to relieving the pain and suffering of others until I retire from the PLANET. Our 40^th reunion was worth the wait. Thanks for the memories. Bonnie

Dixie Franklin (Mc Bride)

I live in a small town (Boerne, Tx) west of San Antonio with my husband Gordon McBride. I have five children (three daughters and two sons) and Gordon has two sons. Together we have seven grandchildren. I am a registered nurse and have worked at University Hospital in San Antonio for 23 years. My hobbies are quilting and photography. My passion is learning more everyday about the word of God and how it changes lives.

Howard (Wayne) Gordon

I left Monahans a few months after graduation, moving to No. Dakota and going to work in the oil patch. I married in '64 and remained there until mid '66 when we moved to the Seattle area and I went to work for Boeing Aircraft. We were there 3 months and I was drafted. I put in my required two years, including a year in Nam. I was with the 1^st Infantry there from '67-'68. After the Army we returned to the Seattle area and I resumed working at Boeing. Left Boeing in a big down-size in the early 70's and worked as a logger for awhile. In 1972 1 joined the King County Sheriff s Office as a patrolman. (Seattle is in King Co.) I am still with the KCSO and for the last 14 years have worked narcotics. Our big problem these days is methamphetamine labs. It was a lot of fun for a long time, but for a variety of reasons it's not as much fun as it used to be. My first marriage ended in '93 and 7 months later a defense attorney introduced me to MELISSA. She is a clerk in the Superior Court system here. I had been in a lot of courts over the years, but never hers. We were married in Feb. of '95 and life has been good. My first wife and I had three sons; the oldest, Jared, lost his fight with cancer in Jan. '97, a few days before his 24h birthday. Melissa had two daughters and I adopted the oldest last year. The youngest will graduate from high school this year. We plan on retiring in mid 2002 and moving to No. Dakota, where we recently purchased a small ranch. We want to have a few horses for riding, put in some wild life habitat, do some flower gardening, walleye fishing and just enjoy life. Besides work our current interests and activities are: hiking and bicycling, gardening (roses mostly, but not as many as Frank Wells or Tommie Collins have), Celebration Community Church, Black Diamond Bull Riders Club (I fractured a vertebra in my back on an ugly ride in Dec. and will probably not be riding again-age has nothing to do with it, I'm not old), prowling antique stores, an occasional Ebay binge, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (me, not her), our Siberian Husky puppy "Anna", and we just like to spend time together walking, talking and whatever.

Marie Guthrie (Nunley)

We lived in Lubbock where Dan graduated in 1965 and where four of our children were born.  In early 1967, we moved to Channelview for 8 months. Then Dan got a job in the oil patch and we moved to Odessa where we lived until 1976. Dan was transferred to Colorado and we lived in Littleton until 1990 when Dan was transferred to Houston. We lived in Humble until 1998 when Dan changed careers and we moved to Galveston. Dan got his masters degree in counseling in 1979 and is now a LPC in the State of Texas. I sing in the church choir, love to travel, visit grandkids, sew, and go to the movies.

Donna Hampton (Early)

I am a retired/disabled Licensed Vocational Nurse. My hobbies include painting on glass and crafts. I married Larry D. Early on May 26, 1961 in Monahans, TX. He is a retired Mortician and now does dispatching for a trucking firm.

Don Hardaway

I attended UTA on a football and track scholarship and after graduating, joined the US Navy. I was stationed in Kodiak, Alaska, where I enjoyed two years of hunting and fishing in some beautiful, remote wilderness areas. Upon discharge, I returned to Texas as a Rehabilitation Counselor in Vernon, Wichita Falls, Mineral Wells and Fort Worth. In Fort Worth I began my career as a US Probation Officer and returned to UTA for a Masters in Criminal Justice. Twenty four years later, I retired as Chief US Probation Officer with a staff of 140 serving federal courts in the Northern District of Texas.

I retired early to accompany my wife, Betty, to Hawaii where she had been appointed Chief US Probation Officer for the District of Hawaii. My 28 year old son, Eric, is in Houston and my daughter, Jacey, age 23, lives in Fort Worth. Betty's son, Chris is a Sophomore at Washington State University and her daughter, Amanda, is a high school senior in Honolulu.

I still throw the discus in masters track meets, and I continue to enjoy hunting and fishing in wilderness areas, the inspiration for my new career of creating bronze sculpture with interests in wildlife (animals) and western art. I am looking forward to renewing old friendships!

Jeanita Hart

I spent my longest school time in Monahans - 4th thru 9th grade - so I truly consider it to be my real school home. However, in Dec 59 my family had to move to Odessa. There I attended the brand new Permian High school. (Now I come to find out Pat Talley was there too, but I didn't know it!) I suddenly married my boyfriend, Mike Robinson, between Junior and Senior years and we took off for Maryland where he was in advanced Army training. Our first son was born in Aberdeen, the first baby born there, 1961! Three weeks later, we outran a blizzard getting home to Texas because Mike shipped out for Germany in February. I returned to Permian for half days and managed to graduate with my class, (thanks to a bunch of credits from earlier years). A month later, July 61, I joined Mike in Frankfurt, Germany. That spring they began the Berlin Wall and all forces in Germany were kept on evacuation/invasion alert. We were so young it didn't seem real !

What followed was 18 months of very special memories, living on the German economy, no car, no hot water. I experienced the birth of my second son, Daniel, as well as the death of my teenage marriage. I returned to Odessa and began the struggle of a single mother with 2 sons. Ended up at Rexene Polyoelfins, out in the Industrial Complex, and there I met my real husband, Jim Johnson. He was a new widower that summer, after his wife died of a long 15 year illness. We married in 1966, raised his kids, my kids, had one son, Jeffrey and took on raising of an orphaned girl, Tenesia when she was 6.

So now I claim the 10 grandchildren of all my kids, 2 step children and foster daughter for my own ! I guess this makes me a professional grandmother, like so many of you soulmates out there.

Unfortunately, my marriage of 17 years gave way in 1983 and I have been by myself since then. But I enjoyed 14 years with Rexene, and then 5 years with Sipes Williamson Engineering Consultants out of Midland, where I helped open a branch office in Denver and spent most of the 5 years there. I started back to school in Denver and came to Dallas to work for the summer of '85, staying with my widowed mother in Plano. Registered at Texas A&M and then the wheel fell off of my car and gutted it. So to work I went - Freddie Mac in the Mktg dept for 5 years and then magically, I got on with MCI here near home in Plano. In 1994, I finally earned my Business Administration degree at the age of 51, going to school at night. I am now into my 10th year with MCI Worldcom, as budget coordinator for the VP of Network Equipment Engineering, the hardware dept for the entire Worldcom telecommunications network.

During this time, my mother's health deteriorated slowly and I was joined by my sister from El Paso, who also had grown children and was RIF'd from her job at Southwestern Bell. We enjoyed the chance to take care of our mother in her waning years and in 1997, she passed on. Since then we share our mother's nice home in Plano, and last year was joined by Pat's daughter and 2 Shar Pei dogs. My newest hobby is walking my dog and my 'nephew' dogs in the neighborhood.

My children make me proud - my oldest sons both worked as drillers in the oilfield for 15 years, but both have moved on. The oldest is finishing Odessa College as we speak, going to Tech in the fall to finish a Petroleum Engr degree (father of my youngest GC). 2nd son owns his own construction business here in Plano-he gave me my 2 oldest grandsons. Young Jeffrey is a journeyman electrician turned firefighter in Cleburne, south of Ft Worth - his twins and little Savannah are part of my middle ones. Tenesia, my 'heart' daughter is married and has two children in Phoenix - so far from me. My stepson, Jimmy has 2 handsome children here in Arlington so all but 3 are near enough for me to travel easily to. I still intend to do a great more traveling, which may or may not happen, but somehow I feel happy and fulfilled, anticipating every day knowing that something exciting is still to happen for me.

It feels like a great opportunity, getting back in touch with you classmates. Hope you still remember me. I'll never forget the choirs, the choir costumes, the Triple Trio, making First Division and Sweepstakes at UIL Contests. I was so thrilled to be in the Junior Play - I borrowed a beautiful satin dressing gown that belonged to Carter Barron's mom for the costume of the mad Lady McBeth character I played. I couldn't wear my glasses for the part, so I literally took my life in my hands walking out on the stage, because I couldn't see any faces of the audience!

I remember the Dingo, cruising the Main drag. I remember Billy Preston's Starliner Ford with the hardtop convertible top and going to Pecos for a Coke on Saturday afternoons in the summer. I remember dancing on the tarmac to the car radios, with 2 or 3 cars parked facing in a circle on a empty intersection of a newly laid town street with no houses built yet. Remember the Million Barrel Tank ? - and the football games and volleyball games. The Terrace Drive In, the poodle skirts, all the classic 50's things.

I really had some good years with all of you. See you in September !

Richard Hawkins

I left Monahans for Odessa right after graduation, then stayed in Fort Worth after getting a degree in Finance from TCU. Worked in banking for 2 years, then I joined a major hospital developing a health care information system. I have continued in that field in both technical and managerial capacities ever since. I'm now with Texas Health Resources, serving as an internal consultant. I married Sharon in 81 (played and worked most of the 70s), gave up aviation and other foolish pursuits and settled into domesticity. I still have her plus 3kids; Meredith (15), Marshall (13), and Garrett (11). Sharon was a full-time mom until all of the kids started school, and is now a professional violinist. (That's her group playing in the wedding scenes on the season finale of "Walker Texas Ranger"). We spend most of our time and energy trying to keep our kids straight and the yard mowed. Retirement and grandkids seem years away. But the Lord has provided well for us, kept me going strong through two heart attacks, and I'm looking forward to many more years. I'm very excited about seeing old friends again. The years have not dimmed my memories of good times at MHS, the sand hills, cruising by the Dingo, and the Lobo drive-in. Although I haven't seen most of you since then, you were never forgotten.

Wanda Henderson (Cary)

After high school, I attended Texas Woman’s University and graduated with a B.S. degree in Elementary Education. That makes me a teacher (now retired) and a homemaker/mother (also retired). Ray and I married in California and have lived in Nebraska, Missouri and Ohio. He was an engineer and we moved a lot at first. I now enjoy painting and spoiling our grandson (Nathan, 5 months). He is our "only" one. Any time that is left over, I spend collecting and making miniatures. We had planned on attending the reunion but we had another commitment come up that can not be broken.

Anne Howard (Hoggard)

After high school, I attended Abilene Christian College (now Abilene Christian University) and earned a degree in Business Education, but I have never taught school. Instead, I’ve worked mostly as a secretary or administrative assistant, and for the past almost 8 years have been Worker’s Comp Administrator for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Fort Worth, Texas, where we’ve lived for 23 years. My husband Sam is a construction safety consultant and has worked on such varied projects as the nuclear energy plant in Glen Rose, a solar energy plant in California, and the supercollider in Waxahachie. He is presently on a job for Monsanto in Augusta, Georgia. We were married in 1976. I already had Randa, then age 6, and he had David, age 5. Randa is now married and living in Lubbock, where she is an accountant for Texas Tech Health Science Center. David works in construction and lives near Lake Whitney. Between them, we have three grandchildren– Katy (7), Ashley (almost 2), and Clint (1). Note: I am holding Ashley in the picture.

Tommy Dan Howard

After graduation, I started Med Tech School and was married to Winona (Fischer) Marshall in 1963. We had three boys. I graduated from Med Tech School in 1965. I was employed as a Lab Trainer for Arco Chemical from 1971-1986. From 1986-2000 I was a LTV-AV Specialist. During this time, I attended Dallas Baptist University and graduated with a BA in Business Management in 1989. I currently work for Northrop Grumman as a Docucare Specialist/Lead Person in the Copy Center Mail Room at sector headquarters.

Winona passed away in 1997 after 34 years of happy marriage. On June 19, 1998, I married Resse’ (Dougherty) Newman. She had two sons. Anthony Russomano is 17 years old and lives in Pennsylvania. Alfred Russomano is 22 years old and is an Embassy Guard in Bejing, China with the U.S. Marine Corp.

In my spare time, I still play the piano and sing. I also do Karaoke.

Max Howorth

Max and Jimmie Howorth with daughter Sheila, son-in-law Jorge and grandsons Landon and Taylor. Jimmie and I got married on Thanksgiving Day 1961. Our daughter Sheila was born in April 1963, whereupon we moved to El Paso to attend UTEP. I graduated with a BBA in Accounting in 1966 and went to work for Shell in Houston. I spent the next 25 years working in various financial positions and cities in Shell’s U.S. operations, and Jimmie worked in real estate, first with Coldwell-Banker and then on her own managing investments for a group of Houston doctors. In 1990 I was named Vice President Planning & Finance and CFO of Shell Chemical Company and in 1997 was asked to lead a project to combine all of the worldwide chemical businesses of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. Shell is represented in over 60 countries, so I traveled a great deal, lived and worked in London and really got to see the world. By that time Jimmie had retired from her business activities and was able to travel with me. On 1/1/2000 I concluded my 34-year career with Shell and we retired to our ranch near Sonora, Texas. Here we are very content to stay put for a while, raise a few cattle and goats and enjoy the wildlife and our family. Our daughter Sheila, after graduating from LSU in 1985, worked for about eight years with CBS, then married a young Coca Cola exec and moved to South America. Eight years, four countries and two children later, they are finally coming home and are currently in the process of moving from Buenos Aires to Austin – practically at our doorstep – and we are so excited. Our future plans include spoiling the grand kids, some ranch projects, more travel when we’re ready, and just hanging out. In 2001 we are looking forward to celebrating our 40^th anniversary as soul mates and seeing everyone at our 40th MHS Class Reunion.

Truitt Isbell

I married Lindy Douglas (Class of 62) in June of 1962. We have been in Denver City, Texas, since 1970. We have three children, Douglas Carl, Buddy Dean, and Shelly Jeanne. Doug is an electrician for Arco Permian and lives in Denver City. He is married to Carla Renae, who works for Wilson ALS. They have two children. Chad is in the fourth grade and Kayla is in kindergarten. Buddy is a diesel mechanic for West Texas Cat in Lubbock. He is married to Jodi, who is disabled with M.S. They have two children. Kassi is in the fifth grade and Kristin is in the fourth grade. Shelly is a hair dresser and is married to Lin Sanford. Lin is a 1984 graduate of Monahans High School. Lin works for Arkansas Western Gas. They have two children. Justin is in the fourth grade and Hannah is in kindergarten. They live in Ozark, Arkansas. I am an oil field electrician and work for Kay and Kompany Electric. I have been there for the last 24 years. I love to fish and hunt. Lindy is an admission clerk in the emergency room at the Yoakum County Hospital. We enjoy doing anything with the kids and grandkids. Wish we could have made the reunion to see all of you again.

Linda Kay James (Milburn)

(Of course I have not aged, nor am I graying, nor are little "laugh lines" beginning to appear everywhere.) I in truth am all of the above but have had many blessings getting every one. Graduated from college at mid term in '66, married at Christmas '67. I have three grown children , a daughter (Susan), a son (Michael) and a daughter Katie. The first two are college graduates with good, fulfilling jobs. Katie is still in the making. She will be a Junior at UT Austin this fall.

Robert R Johnson (Bob)

I came to Dallas in 1969, the U.S. Navy having released me in 1968. I've been in the same house ever since. Kathleen Springfield and I married Thanksgiving Day 1970. I lost her to heart failure in March 1983. One doesn't get over disappearance overnight. I mourned for almost two years.

Thanks to a course and friends and their husbands, I was introduced to ballroom dancing and discovered that's my sport! Dancing is my release, my sport, my panacea for whatever ails me. I have been dancing now since 1985. In earlier years I did a few competitions in Houston, San Antonio, and here in Dallas. I quit because it got too expensive. I teach occasionally when asked. I'm 60 years old now with Parkinson's--yes, I tremor a little, but my heart is in the right place, and as long as my feet are on a dance floor somewhere, they're in the right place too—and get this . . . the ladies just love to see me enter the door. I'm expected to dance with all the ladies because the ratio is 3 to 1 here in Dallas ballrooms.

Wayne Jolley

Graduated from Texas Tech (BS Math/Geoscience) in 6/67 and went to work for Ford Aerospace. Worked 30 years in space flight operations at JSC and then retired at age 55.Supported Apollo, ASTP, Space Lab, Shuttle, and DOD programs. Great career! Was on the ALSEP Network console providing support during the 1st lunar landing-still a lasting and vivid experience. My wife Kay (sweetheart and best friend) is still working at JSC. We have been married 30+ years. Son Craig still at home, working and attending college. I spend time working on our Sam Rayburn Lake property, bass fishing, bird hunting and investing. Kay keeps me busy with some house chores. Everyone doing fine. We live in League City (between Houston/Galveston). If you are in the area call and come see us. We are in the local phone book. I have enjoyed reading some of your biographies and receiving mail from others. Great to hear how old school friends are doing. Yes retirement is great and you often wonder how you had time to work for Corporate America.

Jo Ann King (Maddox)

As a Mid-term Senior, I married James T. Baker (MHS Class of `57) and we moved to Riverside, California. I graduated there and my son Tommy Dan was born there. We then moved to San Antonio where James was commissioned in the Air Force. We have lived in Biloxi, MS., Burns Flat, OK., and Denver CO., where my daughter Beverley was born in 1964. We moved to Seville, Spain for three years and then to Montgomery, AL. We divorced in 1973 and in 1978 I married Kenneth Maddox. I had been working in Fire & Casualty Insurance for a number of years, but when my son Michael Morgan Maddox was born in 1981, I retired. I think I was the oldest room mother on earth. Kenneth had 5 children and I had 2 when we married and we had Michael which gave us 8. He is a wonderful Blessing and is now a Senior at Auburn University. I got back into playing Bridge and have earned my Life Master at the Montgomery Duplicate Bridge Club. I have become a true Southern Woman. I paint water colors and my favorites are my black and whites and western themes. I published a cookbook this year called "Jo Ann's King Family & Friends Killer Kookbook". My Grandchildren love Grandma's kitchen. I am a cancer survivor and thank God for everyday on this wonderful earth. I even became a Southern Baptist! I invite anyone who wanders through my neck of the woods to stop and visit.

Teena Kinsey (Nations)

I received my under graduate degree at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. While teaching school in Dallas I met my husband, Bill Nations, who was finishing Dental School at Baylor. We got married in Dallas and after graduation he went into the Navy and we were stationed at Newport, R.I. and El Toro, California. I taught school in both places. Following his tenure in the service we moved to Norman, Oklahoma. I got my Masters and my Doctorate at the University of Oklahoma. I have been with Norman Public Schools for 28 years -- 3 years as a teacher and 25 years as an administrator. I have been a principal at the middle school, mid-high (9th & 10th graders) and at the high school. From 1997-2000 I was principal at Norman High School -- the first female principal at Norman High. I am currently the Director of Planning, Evaluation, and Legislative Services for the Norman School District.

My husband practiced dentistry for 30 years in Norman. He also served on the Norman City Council for 6 years and Mayor of Norman for 6 years. He has retired from dentistry and is currently serving his second term in the Oklahoma State House of Representatives. While Bill was in the mayor's office, we established a sister-city relationship with Claremont-Ferrand, France. I started a two week academic and cultural exchange program with a high school there and have really enjoyed those relationships and the traveling.

Our hobby for many years has been sailing. We spent every summer for many years chartering sailboats on islands around the country. We sailed for pleasure and raced sailboats for 20 years (1976 to 1996). We had a cabin and kept our boat at Lake Texoma at Cedar Mills Marina. Our first boat was a Clipper 26, the second boat was a Catalina 30 and then from 1983 to 1996 we owned and raced an Islander 40 on Texoma. We have sold our cabin and our boat and we are now heavily into politics and golfing. I also like to garden and do gourmet cooking.

We have a daughter, Tara, who is 30 years old, an architect and works for an architect firm in Denver, Colorado. She is married to an architect and they also like to golf. They visited us the last week of May and we played 12 rounds of golf in 7 days. We also have 2 golden retrievers.

My mother is 86 years old and lives next to my sister in Odessa, TX. She is still very active and I am looking forward to staying with her on labor day weekend. I am really looking forward to the reunion. Thanks to everyone for all of their work to make it happen.

Donna Klewer (Witt)

Deceased--01/08/04.  I’ve been reading all the bios since the reunion plans were beginning and they are very interesting. I wonder how they would read if we all told some of our bad experiences over the last forty years in addition to the good. After thinking it over I’ve decided against it.

My family, mom, dad and three sisters, moved to Kerrville in about 1963. My first job in Kerrville was at Chas. Schreiner Bank. I later went to work at the courthouse where I worked for over 13 years in both the county and district clerk’s offices. I ran for county clerk in ’79 but was defeated mainly because the lady that had been county clerk for 27 years, decided, after saying she wouldn’t do it, to put an ad in the paper that recommended voting for the woman in her office that was running against me. I had transferred to the district clerks office a couple years before. I married in 1964 and have three children, Troy, Bridget and Hollie. Herbie and I divorced in 1977. At about that time everything that could go wrong started going wrong. A short time after filing for divorce my sister Danette had a brainstem stroke and died. She had two children ages 10 and 5 years old. My parents had to go through court to get custody of them. I quit the courthouse and went to work for my dad. He had Kerr Auto Sales for over 30 years. He was going to retire and turn the business over to me but after 8 years he was still working so I decided to move to Austin.

In 1990 I moved to Austin and worked for Austin Region Clinics until I was needed to take care of my granddaughter who was a year old. She would have gone to a day care and I didn’t want that. My mother had been taking care of her since birth but was going to Ohio for a few months. I moved back to Kerrville and have been working out of my home. I take care of my parent’s personal business and also 17 rent houses. I also do typing of medical record charts for a doctor and occasionally type for a court reporter. My granddaughter was starting to school so I wouldn’t have her anymore and then I had another grandchild, a little boy named Ian that I have been keeping since he was a few weeks old. He is now 2 ½.. I love every minute that I spend with him. Every day is special sharing experiences with him and he is learning something new every day.

After getting back to Kerrville, my daughter Bridget started inviting me out to supper. Her dad had been fixing supper on Wednesday nights for over 20 years. It was not long, after seeing each other regularly, at supper and on weekends, for a couple of years, we realized that we still cared for each other and started seeing each other again. We have been back together, not re-married, for over 3 years. He has approximately 350 acres just out of Kerrville and all three of our children, their spouses and our grandchildren each live in their own homes. Herbie’s mother and Herbie also have their homes there. We call it the "Witt Compound". I’m the only one that lives in town but I am out there lot of the time. I go home to feed my animals and take care of my yard and do my typing.

On June 10^th of this year my father had a brainstem stroke that resulted in his throat being paralyzed. He was unable to swallow so unable to eat. He was sent for rehab in San Antonio after he improved from the stroke but he got pneumonia and a staph infection and died on August 4^th.

I am looking forward to being in Monahans and seeing all of you. I don’t think most of you ever knew I was there because I tried real hard to be invisible and I think I succeeded. I really thought that our class probably had a class reunion in earlier years and that I had not been located. I had been to Monahans a couple of times and went by the school to ask if anyone knew if there had been a reunion for the class of ’61. No one knew.

My sisters, Dianne class of ’63 and Debbye class of ’65 are coming to the reunion with me. I was the only one that actually graduated from Monahans High but they were there from the first grade until we moved from Monahans.

I have three of the most wonderful, considerate, conscientious, dependable children in the world. Troy, my son and the oldest child (he and his wife Susan have two children, Emily and Ian) has just been promoted to Maintenance supervisor for Tx DOT here in Kerrville after only being there about 3 years. Susan is a 4^th grade teacher at Ingram, Tx. Bridget works for Kerrville Telephone Company where she does the installation and whatever that pertains to the ADSL. Her husband is a coach at Harper, Texas. She previously worked for vet clinics and she’s the one we all call if we have any sick animals. Hollie, my youngest daughter works as assistant office manager for a CPA firm and also cleans offices when she is not instructing aerobic classes at the Sports Center where she was the Instructor of the month for July and is serving as a vice president of the Sunrise Lions Club where she was honored as Lion of the Year. I will be bringing pictures of my children and grandchildren.

Bobby Kretzinger

Robert Kretzinger (Bobby) joined the army after leaving Monahans, came back in October 1960, married a 1960 graduate, Trudie King, also from Monahans. We left after getting married and went to Ft Bragg, North Carolina where I was stationed, then to Fairbanks, Alaska for 5 years where our daughter Gia was born in November 1965. We then went to Germany and Holland for 3 years. We toured a lot of countries, while we were there. Trudie and other officers and NCO wives were able to tour East and West Berlin for a week, which was really a thrill for her. After leaving Europe we were back in Anaheim, California for 3 years where our son Ty was born in July 1972. We then moved to Aransas Pass, Texas, and after 10 years moved to Midland for 10 years. We presently live in Forestburg, Texas on 10 acres of land. We are retired and enjoy living in the country. Our children Gia and Ty both live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area which is about 70 miles south of us. Gia is married to Randy Frazier and has 2 children Eric (11) and Taryn (9). Ty is single and working in Dallas. After being retired our hobbies are collecting antiques and coins. We also enjoy traveling but the joy of our life is being close to our children and grandchildren.

Kana McAuley (Webster)

After graduating, I attended Odessa College off and on over the years. I married Dan Webster in 1962 and we had two sons–Jon, who blessed us with two granddaughters, and Charles, who married into a family with two boys and a girl and then had a son in 1997. So we have 6 grandchildren!! What fun we have!! I worked over the years keeping books for a couple of corporations, participated in school activities, and sat on all the benches for football, baseball, basketball, and track that our sons played in. In 1981, I obtained my Real Estate License and since then have been helping great folks buy and sell their homes. I’m active in community projects and real estate on the local, state and national level. I’ve been president of every organization I’ve been in land have received numerous awards in real estate. In January of 2001, I received the Realtor of the Year award. Wow! What a big head I’ve had over that one! Dan retired from the Odessa Police Department in 1991 and is now working with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice until he is old enough to retire "again". He still shoots trap and skeet on the local and state level and hunts and fishes to his hearts delight. My brother, T.O. died in 1963 (only 23 years old) as a result of an auto accident in Monahans. He served in the Air Force for three years before he returned home, went to Odessa College, and was later the Train Master in Monahans. I sure miss that guy. We hope to retire in a few years. I think this is wonderful that we are going to be in contact after 40 years. I for one, had happy memories of Monahans, America.

Linda McCormack (Gremore)

After graduation I attended Hardin-Simmons for two years and Dixie Fambrough Kirchmeier was my roommate my sophomore year. I then became a legal secretary and worked for Gulf in Tulsa, Oklahoma, moved to Austin in 1966 and worked at the Attorney General's office and then for a private firm until 1970. Moved back to Tulsa and worked for law firms and Gulf once again. In 1977 I married Virgil Gremore and we began raising Arabian horses. The bloodline of all of our horses are related to the "Black Stallion" the one with the little boy on the beach. Our stallion was Region IX (Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana) Reserve Western Pleasure Champion. You might say the Lord has given me most of my heart's desires. I am still a legal secretary, having attained my PLS (Professional Legal Secretary) or (Pretty Lousy Secretary) Ha! and my Certified Legal Assistant certificates. My husband is a Drilling Consultant. Seems strange when I think that my life has been lived around the oil industry. My father was transferred by Sinclair to Monahans at the beginning of my sophomore year. My husband and I lived in Fort Worth from 1988 until October of 1999. All of our family live in the Tulsa area and we just felt the need to go home. I still love Texas and the people in Texas. I will never forget how -- when I first moved to Monahans -- one afternoon a group of you came by and took me to get a coke. Can't remember who it was, but will never forget the friendliness.

Gayle McNerlin (Udemi)

I went to TCU for one year--loved Fort Worth and TREES--then they closed out my major. So I transferred to Tech and graduated from there in 1965 with a degree in Art. Got married in March of 65 to Frank Udemi, the cutest little Italian guy from Houston, who happens to be a cowboy at heart. (Something about those cowboys!!) So I may have left West Texas, but horses, cows, donkeys, pigs, dogs, cats and anything else that walks and EATS, has always been part of our lives. Frank graduated from WTSU in Canyon, and we moved to Brookshire, Texas--about 35 miles west of Houston on I-10. We live outside of town on a few acres and own a plant nursery just up the road. I taught school for a couple of years and then have managed the nursery for 27 years. I was on the School Board for nearly 14 years and found that one of the years I was President, Sheridan Wingrove was President of a School Board in central Texas. Isn't that a hoot? I looked for him at conventions, but never ran across him. I still paint and am able to sell all I have time to paint. Mostly I use watercolor now; I love the spontaneity of it. I still sing, mostly at church, weddings and funerals. I've been choir director of our church choir for 20 years or so. One of my son's friends has a country band and sometimes they let me sing with them. I think I embarrass my children--I love it. 

We have 3 children: Angela Robin, 35, married with 2 boys--our joys; Matthew Cowan (Matt), 31, married with 1 boy--our other joy; Britton Anthony, 29, single but in love, I think. Robin is a Wildlife Biologist who is at present a full-time mom till the boys get older. Matt is a Paramedic in Houston and is great at it. He works 2 long 24 hour days a week and has 5 days to help keep Jake. Britt is in Hotel Management. He just moved back to Houston from Monterey, CA. and is at the Plaza Hilton in the Med. Center. as Sales Manager. He'll be ready for GM in about 2 years.

I've been so sad to hear about some of the health problems of old friends. We've been in pretty good shape up till about 2 years ago. I had a bad case of viral pneumonia that nearly did me in, but I'm fine now. Frank had one heart attack, a bad flare-up, an aneurysm that resulted in a splint and is at present in pretty good shape. I have to say that the Lord's been good to us. It hasn't all been green meadows, but we've been able to navigate through the briar patches. We’ve always traveled (with and without the children) mostly camping with a tent for years and graduated to a very old Airstream (YEA!!, a bathroom). This year, since Frank is Sicilian, our children arranged for us to go to Italy for 3 weeks in March, and it was wonderful.

For those who remember my folks: Dad death was basically a result of that bad tornado that went through Monahans in 1977. He was in the nursing home that was hit, was moved to Kermit, got confused and tried to run away, fell and broke his hip. He died after surgery. Mother was great and had a good life until shortly before a heart attack in 1990. I still miss them a lot. When we sold her house for a daycare facility, I really missed having a tie to Monahans.

I've been so gratified to hear about the lives of different ones. Boy, haven't we gone in a lot of different directions. I'd have bet my life that I'd never be associated with plants--didn't know a rose from a petunia. I do now. I grow and process herbs and make and sell herb teas for pleasure and for help. My grandson says I slap a leaf on any hurt he has, and he's right. It sure keeps life interesting when you continue to learn new things. NOW, if I can just master this email and internet thing!!

Alice Milson (Barron)

After wasting one year, I attended Nursing School in Odessa to receive my LVN License. After graduation, I moved to East Texas where I met Carl Barron. We married in January 1964. Later that year we moved to Odessa where our only daughter, Susan was born. In 1966 we moved to Hobbs, New Mexico. Then we moved several times as my husband was employed as an electrician doing construction work. We lived in places like Abilene, Mason, Texline, Naples and Daingerfield. We finally settled in Marshall, Texas when my husband went to work for Alcoa. We have been here since except for almost a year in Greenville, Texas. I have worked in Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Doctor’s offices, and other Clinics. I no longer seem to have time to work. We are raising our two teenage granddaughters. Amanda will be a junior in High School next year and is doing very well in Journalism. Amy will be a freshman next year and is looking for her spot. I do volunteer work in our local Historical/Genealogical Library. I also like to do woodworking, gardening and other crafts when I have time.

Betty Nickle (Smith)

I married in fall of 1959,so I didn't actually graduate with the Class of '61. I raised 3 daughters, working at various jobs to support them as a single Mom. They have given me 3 beautiful grandchildren. I remarried in 1991 to William (Bill) Smith, We are presently living in Odessa, Tx. I drive a school bus for ECISD, going into my 8th year, and love it, I am currently driving out of the Career Center. Bill drives a truck for CX Transports, hauling, oilfield cement for Haliburton. I do various crafts in my spare time and Bill likes to work with his scroll saw, doing a little wood work. I am looking forward to seeing some of you next year at the Class of '61 Reunion.

Gomesindo Olibas

There are many fond memories of my time spent at Monahans High, but my greatest triumph was winning the heart of my school sweetheart and now spouse, Delia Polanco Olibas. Upon graduation from M.H.S., I attended Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, where I graduated in 1965. Immediately following graduation, I began my teaching career as a band director in Pecos. Four months later, Delia and I were married, and we have happily been so for 35 years. We have been blessed with three extraordinary daughters (who each encompass their father’s spunky disposition and their mother’s charm), one outstanding son-in-law, Chris Portillo, and two of the most beautiful, amazing, and intelligent (and I’m NOT being biased) grandsons, Christopher Jonah "C.J." and Jalen Gome Portillo.

After 2 years as a band director, I became involved in coaching and returned to school to acquire another teaching field. I taught Texas History and coached football, basketball, and track for the next 13 years before once again returning to school for my administration certification. Upon completion of this, I began, and continued, my career in administration for the last 23 years. In 1969, I proudly made history in Pecos by being the first Hispanic assistant principal at Pecos High School. In 1971, I was promoted to a principal’s position, and I worked as campus principal at the various schools for 19 years. Presently, I am completing my 4^th year as the Assistant Superintendent for Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD. This has kept me extremely busy as I "wear many hats." In addition to my position as Assistant Superintendent, I am also the Director of many departments including Personnel, Bilingual, Title I, Migrant, Title IX, 504, and Dyslexia.

Delia has been an elementary teacher for 27 years, and I believe it has been our love for education and students that has led our children into this area. My oldest daughter, Lanette Portillo, in her 8^th year as an elementary teacher. She seems to love it every bit as much as Delia and I. Our middle daughter, Lezlie, taught Reading, English, and Journalism for the past 4 years. She has currently chosen to enroll in graduate studies at Texas Tech where she will graduate with a Master’s Degree in Administration in December. She has expressed interest in attending law school and specializing in the field of Educational Law. Our youngest daughter, Lindsay, is successfully completing her freshman year as a pre-law student at Texas Tech with a major in English.

All work and no play leads to a very dull life, so I have had the unique opportunity to "keep up" with my hobby in music. I had a 9 piece band for 30 years, and the fact that we never had any boys didn’t deter me from training one of my children to join me. Because of this (and with Delia’s permission), Lezlie began playing a "mean" sax in my band. As time progressed, lack of time became a major factor, and I was forced to put music on hold. Although my decision to disband occurred five years ago, I kept and stored all my equipment, instruments, and music, and after retirement (maybe next year?), I hope to regroup, write music, and begin playing once again.

Jim Pattillo

What I am is a husband of 36 years, father of 33 years, and the greatest Paw Paw of 11 years. What ever else I have done in my life is of little consequence. The accomplishments, that I have made do not count in the great spectrum of life. I can't take any of that with me. The most important thing in my life is my loved ones.

I met and married the only woman in the world who could ever love me unconditionally, warts and all. We were married in Lubbock, Texas. September the 25, 1964. I did promise her I would never run out of things to say. I also promised her our marriage would never be dull. Uncle Sam called January 1965 and said, 'I want you.' Thanks to Mrs. Parker at the local draft board # 105, in Pecos, Texas, there was no appeal. This stopped my higher education at Texas Technological University is the spring of my Senior year. So I jerked Jane Ellen up and took her far, far away to Chicago, Illinois. My Yankee daughter was born in Waukegan, Illinois, November 23, 1966. My Southern Gentleman son was born in Norfolk, Virginia, December 5,1969. I was discharged from the United 5tates Navy in 1970. We have lived in Lubbock, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Waukegan, Illinois; Rising Sun, Midland; Portsmouth, Virginia; Norfolk, Virginia; West Jefferson, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; Lubbock, Texas; Odessa, Texas; Houston, Texas; Humble, Texas; and last but not least Midland, Texas ----- All Aboard.

I made my children a promise in 1979 that we would not move again and that they could graduate from Lee High School in Midland, Texas. They both decided to get married, my daughter in Houston and my son in Midland. My red-haired Yankee Daughter blessed me with 3 precious Grand Children, Kate, Grace, and James. They now live outside of San Francisco in Pleasanton. My Southern Son blessed me with 2 precious Grand Children, Jake and Madeline. I'm so lucky, they live right here in Midland, Texas.

I have been associated with the Oil Field, in sales, in one capacity or another since 1974. It has been interesting to say the least. It has either been chicken breasts or chicken feathers. I made it through the boom of 1979 to 1984 with flying colors. I made it through the bust of 1986 to 1991 with not so f lying colors. I am in the boom of 1999 to 2000 and I am handling this one a little differently. But regardless of what I choose to do the sun will rise tomorrow somewhere.

Linda Pavlicek (Schlosser)

I own and operate Scarlet Rooster Antiques, Gifts & Tea Room in downtown Watowga, OK. Before that, I had an interior decorating, gift, and flower shop for 23 years before changing to antiques. My hobby is going to estate sales, reading and traveling. I attended Scheffield School of Interior Design and also have a license as a Real Estate Sales Associate, Real Estate Appraiser and a degree from Faley-Belshaw Upholstery Institute. I’m so very sorry I won’t be able to attend the reunion. My brother-in-law in Kansas just had surgery for lung cancer and isn’t doing well. We are going to Kansas that weekend to see him. They don’t expect him to last very long. Tell everyone I said hello and would love to see everyone. Linda

Kay Perucca (Holmes)

After graduating, I married Dennis Holmes and we were married for 28 years before he died of cancer in 1990. I have two daughters and had five grandchildren before I lost one to Cerebral Palsy in 1997. I have worked for Southwestern Crop Insurance for the last 19 years, first in Big Spring and now in San Angelo. We sell crop insurance to the farmers (cotton, milo, wheat, etc.).

I stay busy with friends here in San Angelo and keeping the road hot between here and Amarillo and San Antonio to see my kids and grandkids.

Norma Jo Phipps (Flynn)

After meeting John Flynn, a smooth talking airman stationed at Pyote, I left school and married him on December 28, 1960. (I later received my GED.) We have four children, all of whom live in the Austin area. The oldest is Edward, who is married with one five-year-old son, Christian. Ed has an associate’s degree and is an autocad designer with Entel. Next is our son Michael, who is single, has a bachelors degree in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin, and is the Manager of Quality Assurance for Sheshunoff Information Systems, Inc., a firm that specializes in banking data and software. Our daughter Barbara is married with two children, a son Zach, who’ll be four in January, and a daughter, Emily, who turned two last July. Barbara received a bachelors degree from Southern Coast University and is the Executive Director for the 100 Club of Central Texas, a nonprofit group that benefits policemen killed or wounded in the line of duty. Our youngest daughter Diane is married and has on child, Sarah , who is two months old. Diane has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a marketing and event coordinator for several restaurants in Austin’s entertainment district, but is a full time mother now. If you’re wondering why I spent so much time on the kids, it’s because they were my full time job for so many years and I enjoy reflecting on my handiwork! With John in the Air force, we moved around quite a bit until he retired in 1976. We started off in Pyote, moved to Albuquerque, NM, then Myrtle Beach, SC, Las Vegas, NV, Hampton, VA, Shalimar, FL, and finally back in Monahans for a few years before settling in Round Rock, a suburb of Austin, in 1980. I did volunteer work while John was in the Air Force, mainly with Family Services. After we returned to Monahans in 1976, I worked as the office manager for Charles McNabb Insurance Agency. When we moved to Round Rock, I worked at the Round Rock Tax Office until 1982. In ’82 I moved to the Williamson County Appraisal District, where I was the Chief Appraiser from ’82 until ’84. Holding a public office dealing with property taxes is one of life’s more unpleasant challenges, to put it mildly. To say that the job of Chief Appraiser put a few gray hairs on my head would be a vast understatement! (Okay, I’m still a blonde, but those gray hairs would be there was it not for the skill of my hairdresser!) Moving along the career path, I taught Ad Valorem Tax Classes from ’84 to ’86 and then was a Budget Analyst for the Department of Commerce for the State of Texas from ’87 to ’93. From ’93 to ’97, I co-owned and managed a weight loss franchise with my daughter, Barbara. Since ’97 I have been a professional grandmother! Both my parents are still alive and well, living on South Main in Monahans. Sadly, we lost my brother Clarence to a heart attack in July of ’96. My other siblings are all doing well and we are still very close. I look forward to seeing everyone in Monahans at the reunion.

Jimmie Ann Pool (Howorth)--See Max Howorth

Hardy Price

Deceased--11/20/03.  My Dad died in the Fall of 1960 and we moved to Fort Worth and I graduated from Poly High School. My brother was still in college so I decided to get the army out of the way. Smart thinking. I got in and out before Nam got bad. . In the Army, I worked on Army newspapers. Got out of the Army on a Thursday and went to work for the Odessa American as police reporter the following Monday. Also covered City Hall and Public Schools before getting fired for being over my head. Went to the Big Spring paper as a sports writer, getting fired in six months for drinking beer in public and frequenting the Mexican joints on the other side of the tracks. Then worked at a couple of Dallas/Fort Worth suburban papers before going back to Odessa in 1968. The next year I got a job with The Arizona Republic in Phoenix as a Sportswriter (covered a couple of Indy 500's and Super Bowls, one with Hunter S. Thompson which I don't remember much about except getting tossed from the same hotel twice. Moved to the entertainment section in 1972 and came into my own. For the next 12 years covered rock and roll and the movies. Smoked copious amounts of dope and took a righteous number of LSD trips, none bad I must say. I was smart enough not to put a needle in my arm or anything up my nose. AM I THE ONLY 1961 MHS ALMOST GRAD TO HAVE SMOKED DOPE? COME ON SOMEBODY FESS UP. While an entertainment columnist, I met and wrote about a lot of movie and rock and roll types from Striesand to Kristofferson to Woody Allen and Paul Newman, to Albert Finney and Balderman Huerta aka Freddy Fender. It was a merry-go-round. Got off to be a travel writer and had a great time visiting England (lots), Hawaii, Portugal, Egypt, Greece, Baharain Qatar and the United Emirates. About the same time, the paper made me the gossip and society columnist. I got paid to wear a tuxedo and go to parties, hang around with good looking women, eat drink and smoke and I did it real good. Almost got married once, to an English girl I met in Portugal. When not newspapering, I have held positions as a telemarketer, used car salesman, department store Santa Clause, and liquor store clerk. This is getting too bloody long so lets cut to the chase. Left Arizona in 1990 after long feud with the Publisher–I lost. Returned to Texas. My Mom died in 1990 and my brother in 1995. Declared disabled in 1996 (had diabetes, congestive heart failure). I spent most of last year in four different hospitals. They cut off all the toes on my right foot last year. GIRLS-- I'M STILL AVAILABLE, never been married, no kids, and remember, no matter where you are, there you are, and it's all on the wheel. So party on!

Gerald (Jerry) Rabun

After graduating from Monahans Jr. High in 1958, I moved to Kermit in 1959. In 1960, I joined the Navy, worked as a Postal Clerk aboard Ship and was discharged in 1962, began working for Furr's, and married Carolyn Lee Thomason from Odessa.. We had one son, James Willard, and were divorced in 1963. I was married for the 2^nd time in 1963 to Carol Jean Costley, my partner in life.

From 1963-1970, I worked in the small loan and mortgage loan business for various companies, last being as Assistant Vice President of Lumbermen's Investment Corporation in Austin, Texas. I attended the University of Texas in Austin from 1970-72 while working as Assistant Chief Engineer at KHFI-TV in Austin, Texas. From 1972-73 I worked as a field engineer for RCA, Broadcast Systems Division. I went back to Lumbermen's Investment Corporation, in Austin, as Vice President & Collection Manager and worked there from 1973-76. I then worked at KLRU-TV as a Video Tape Operator. In 1977, I went to the Texas Department of Human Resources as Techical Director, Media Services Division. In 1982, I started work as QC Test & Design Engineer for Video Associated Laboratories, Austin, Texas, where I stayed until my retirement in February 1991. I retired from the rat race to help my bride with her child care business, which we sold in 2000.

At this writing, we are both retired, enjoying our grand children and our new great granddaughter, Sophia Elise. We try to get the gym 4 or 5 times a week, spending most of our time traveling and doing genealogy research. I developed a passion for sailboat racing so I spend a lot of my time on Lake Travis, here in Austin.

Beyond that, it's been a great ride so far & I am looking forward to all that awaits.

John Ratliff

EDUCATION: Baylor University, 1961-1965, BBA in Accounting. Partial athletic scholarship in golf, lettered 1964, 1965. North Texas State University, 1965-67, MBA in Accounting and Finance. Certified Public Accountant, Texas 1967-present. Certified Commercial Lender, University of Oklahoma, 1976. TCU Management Program, 1978. Stanford University Financial Executive Program, 1982. PROFESSIONAL: Arthur Andersen & Co., 1967-1975, Audit Manager specializing in financial institutions. First United Bancorporation, Inc. 1975-1983, Chief Financial Officer of $2.2 billion bank holding company. Interfirst Corporation, 1983-1985, Chief Financial Officer of Interfirst Services Corporation. Self-employed, 1986-1987, public accounting. Texas Wesleyan University, 1987-1995, Chief Financial Officer. Public accounting and consultant, 1995-present, Pickens, Snodgrass, Koch & Company, Arlington, Texas. National Association of Church Administrators, 1968-present. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 1968-present. Texas Society of Certified Public Accountant, 1968-present. SOCIAL AND CIVIC: Member Diamond Oaks Country Club, 1967-1982, Director 1974-1978. First Texas Council of Campfire, Inc., Director 1974-1980 and 1988-1992, President in 1979-1980. Campfire Boys and Girls, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, Board of Directors 1989-1995. Colonial Country Club, 1978-present. Fort Worth Crime Stoppers Commission, 1992-1995. Rotary Club of Fort Worth, 1987-1995. Healing Wings Ministries, Director, 1998-present. Streams Ministries, International, Director 1999-present. PERSONAL: Married, Suzanne Ellis Ratliff. Children: Glennell Ratliff Brivic (1967) and Mike Ratliff (1973). Grandchild: Alex Brivic (1998). Graduate, Level Two, The Art of Hearing God. Member James Avenue Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Tx.

Janice Runyon (Matthews)

Hollis and I married on Good Friday 37 years ago. He thought it would be easy for him to remember our anniversary. Boy was he surprised! We have three children: Eric (35), Conne' (33), and Brett (31). They have blessed us with four beautiful granddaughters: Megan (6), Taylor (5), Clarissa (4), and Nicole (3). We have lived in Odessa 64-71, Big Spring 71-72, Monahans 72-74, Arlington 74-76, back to Odessa 76-79, Lubbock 79-86, back to Arlington 86-99, Kennedale 99-present.

Hollis retired from Allstate in 86 as a Sr. District Sales Manager. Then worked for Crum & Foster as a Territorial Sales Manager and for Members Insurance as Vice President of Marketing. We started our own independent insurance agency 8 years ago which has grown to be one of the largest personal lines insurance agencies in Arlington. Brett joined our Agency 7 years ago and Eric came aboard 2 years ago. I also have worked for Lubbock County, Tarrant County, and owned my typing business.

My hobbies are reading and traveling. We have traveled 25 states of the U.S. plus 5 foreign countries.

I would like to thank the reunion committee for all their time and effort they have put into planning our "40th" reunion. I would especially like to thank Frank for the web site he has built. His efforts have brought us together via the Internet. I am looking forward to seeing everyone Labor Day weekend.

Gerald Scott

My family picture as follows: Top - ( L to R ) - Daughter - April; Son - Bryan; Granddaughter - Amy; Wife - Gwynne; Granddaughter - Ashley; Yours Truly - Gerald holding Grandson - Dillon; Son - Stephen; Daughter - in - Law - Pam. Gwynne and I were married in 63' while attending UTEP. I graduated with a BBA in Accounting in 66' and accepted a position with PPG Industries in Houston. Transferred to Pittsburgh in 72' where we lived for 3 years. Once deciding I did not want to live in Pittsburgh the rest of my life, I accepted a position with Baker International and moved back to Houston. At the time Baker merged with Hughes Tool, I was transferred to their BJ Titan Division which eventually was "spun off" and sold to the public as BJ Services Co. I have spent most of my career in Houston with the exception of 3 years in Pittsburgh; 3 years in Dallas; and 3 years in Aberdeen, Scotland. I have had a steady diet of International travel for the past 10 years and looking forward to putting an end to it. Future Plans include retiring some time in 2,002 and moving to Hot Springs Village. We intend to enjoy our Grandchildren; travel a little bit; and play a lot of golf! It is going to be great to see all of you again. Hurry Labor Day!!!!

Ellen Shaid (Neal)

As soon as we graduated in 1961, I enrolled at Hardin-Simmons University at Abilene, Tx. Dixie Fambrough and I roomed together our first year and even worked in the same office on campus for the next four years. I was on a five-year degree plan in Music Education, so my courses were pretty full since my plan was to finish with my class in '65. About the time that I graduated, I married Johnie Gratton (class of '60). I taught school in Irving while Johnie finished at North Texas State University. Johnie and I lived in Duncan, OK, about seven years. I taught school for approximately four more years: elementary music plus 5th & 6th grades; junior high music classes; and high school driver education classes during several summer sessions. One year I even taught a night driver-education class through the vo-tech for adults. You haven't seen anything until you have a 70-year old woman learning to drive "at night". I also had my private piano students, too. Johnie's job with Halliburton in Duncan, OK, helped make contact with American National Insurance Company in Galveston, TX. He was Vice-President of Computer Services there and I worked part-time at the Univ. of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston for the next 8 yrs. We had great fun flying private planes and had a few close calls during the Duncan years. We lived in Galveston, TX, for 8 years working hard and even opened 4 Schlotzsky's shops with a close friend and his wife. Johnie had accomplished his corporate dreams and looked for new adventures in Saudi Arabia. We lived in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, for three years. The King wanted the best computer center so he got it. Johnie worked for ARAMCD (Arabian American Oil Company) and he recruited personnel for the new Computer Center which had one of the top centers in the world. We were able to travel frequently either on business or personally. Johnie became ill and was sent back to Houston for medical treatment. Unfortunately, his diagnosis was terminal cancer and he died in December of 1984. I had moved to Fort Smith, AR, and managed my sister's gift shop in Mena, AR. After a couple of years, I met Ted Neal and we married almost 15 years ago. Ted is a heating and air-conditioning contractor and has been in business about 35 years. We have four wonderful grandchildren: 19, 18, 13, & 6 years. It's been a lot of fun hearing from classmates and hope to see you in September!

Carolyn Sligh (Spiller)

After graduation, I followed my brother, Jon, to West Texas State University in Canyon where he attended on a golf scholarship. During the summer after my freshman year at WTSU, I met and married Jerry Lewis from Kermit. Our first son Guy, was born in Kermit in 1963. Jerry worked with El Paso Natural Gas and in 1963 we were transferred to Arizona. Our second son, Chad, was born in Tucson in 1967. Although this new addition was not a Texan, we decided to keep him anyway! He is now 6 feet 4 inches. After Tucson, we lived briefly in Hobbs, and in 1969 Jerry accepted a position with Union Carbide in New Orleans, Louisiana. Talk about a cultural shock! Early on, this West Texas girl had a difficult adjustment in New Orleans but grew to love the city and it’s charm. My shorthand abilities (thanks to Mrs. Cooksey) landed me a position with Ingram Corporation as an assistant to the President/CEO of the Ocean Transportation Division, where I remained for many long years. While with Ingram, I had the opportunity to travel to Norway, Sweden and Finland. Jerry and I divorced in 1974. I quickly reclaimed my maiden name, and after several years as a single mom returned to Texas. Unfortunately, a change in professions became necessary, as I could not find a job in ocean transportation in West Texas…small wonder! I worked in Lubbock for several years for one of the five companies involved in the Alaskan pipeline. This company was a subsidiary of the company I worked with in New Orleans. However, as fate would have it, I moved to Odessa and went to work for an attorney where I remained for another many long years. During these years, New Orleans kept haunting me to return. I sold my home in Odessa, with the help of Kana McAuley Webster, and returned to New Orleans where I worked for the CEO of a large hospital in New Orleans. This position made it clear to me I was a "Jill" of all trades, but a master of none. At my age, I grew tired of the city life and yearned to be back in the wide-open spaces. Upon my return to Texas, I met a wonderful man, Edward "Ned" Spiller, who became my husband on April 25, 2001. We were married in Maui, Hawaii. Ned is a Director of the International Division of Verizon here in Dallas, and consequently travels worldwide. Fortunately, on occasion, I get to tag along. This year our longest trip has been to Caracas, Venezuela and our most exciting to Hawaii. Because of our frequent travels it became necessary to take early retirement from the Reunion Committee. However, I remain very excited about our reunion and take pride in the little part I played in its organization. We have a wonderful Committee and this committee, (together with the volunteers), continue to work hard to ensure this reunion will be a success! I hope you will join me in September to congratulate each and every member and volunteer for a job well done! Last but not least, my two sons have richly blessed me with six grandchildren. My oldest grandchild is 15 and my youngest 2. My dad and his wonderful wife, Pat Greathouse Sligh, still live in Monahans, which has enabled me over these many years to occasionally return to my roots. God Bless them! God willing, I will see each and every one of you in September!!!! Aloha, Carolyn Sligh Spiller

Norman Smith

After high school, I went to the University of Oklahoma on a football scholarship and graduated there with a BBA degree. I then went to SMU where I got my JD. I am owner of Ozark Exploration and also Express Air Drilling. I have been married to Janet Kerr for 35 years and we have two sons, Michael and David, and have two grandchildren. I enjoy quail hunting, fishing and ranching and farming on my ranch in Central Texas.

Ron Smith

Texas Tech, 1968 BBA and Business Executive Programs at Columbia and Northwestern Universities. Off to Chicago to work for R.R. Donnelley. Retired from RRD as Sr. VP in 1987 (age 44). Began investment club in 1969 with 5 others, so as soon as I retired from the corporate world, I started my own investment firm (1987). Now have 10 in firm. Married, 38 yrs to Jean: two sons, Ronnie, 36 in the horse business in Flower Mound with his wife, Stacey and our grandson, Ryan; and Ryan, 27 a stock broker and VP of our firm. My wife and I and our partners have entered the land development business in Arlington, TX with plans to build 20 executive homes. My hobbies include golf, travel, fishing, hunting, woodworking and teaching. I think of you often and the days we spent at MHS. If you are ever in Arlington, please call (817) 795-2400 hp. or (817) 276-8090 wk. I wish you all good health, good luck and God speed.

Gail Stephens (Morrow)

Jim and I met at ACC my freshman year. Jim was a senior. We married the summer after his 1^st year in Dental School. Our first and second daughters were born while he was in school (not the smartest idea we ever had). I finally finished a degree in psychology after our fourth child was born. Any of you that remember me know school wasn=t my favorite subject. Anne Howard and I roomed together at ACC and remain best friends to this day. Jim and I travel some. Places we have been are Hawaii, Germany, Great Britain, France, Canada, Mexico, and around the U.S. Our favorite places are Rockport, Texas (Bay fishing) and Possum Kingdom Lake (where we have a condo overlooking the lake at the Cliffs). We have been very blessed by the Lord. All of our children and grand children are smart and healthy. The girls have good husbands (our son is still un-married). Mitsy and Lisa and their families live in Abilene, Shelly and family in Austin. Bill is in New York City. I enjoy playing the organ, fishing, running, sewing, and reading (that hobby came too late). We are very active in our Church. Jim is an Elder and I teach middle and high school girls.

Paula Strickland (Buie)

Jerry Buie saw my picture in the 1960 MHS Annual and called me for a date. We were married in 1962. The rest is history, which is what I feel like, when I think of a 40^th class reunion! Jerry graduated from Texas Tech, and our son Chuck was born in Lubbock. Then he went to work for Halliburton in Lovington, New Mexico where our daughter Kathy was born.

In December 1966, we transferred to Tripoli, Libya, just in time to get in the middle of the Six-Day War of 1967. We were flown out of harms way to Naples in the belly of a Strategic Air Base transport plane from Wheeles Air Base. Then we made it back to the states on our own. After checking in with Halliburton in Duncan, we were transferred to Casper, Wyoming, then to Gillette where they were having a big Boom in 1967. We lived in a trailer for the first time, as there were no houses for all of us "oilies" from Oklahoma & Texas. Jerry made a good reputation as a field engineer and a lot of money for "Big Red." We were transferred to Hays, Kansas, then Great Bend, then district sales engineer in Wichita, Kansas for about 20 years, just long enough for the kids to grow up and off to college.

In the meantime, Jerry decided he could do this stuff without Halliburton, so a new adventure in our lives began. We started The Buie Company in Pratt, Kansas in 1979, with the help of Jerry's brother Ron, and his sister-in-law Dotty Buie. My what a time we had, if you didn't experience the 80's in the oil field you really missed something special. Woe is me, as fast as it started, someone turned of the oil spicket and it was all over. We had planned to kind of mellow out in Kansas and live happily ever after. We had employees depending on us and we thought it would turn around, wrong!!!

Jerry, finally seeing that the oilfield in Kansas, for all practical purposes, was dead started our trucks and drove to Guatemala or as the Indians and I call it "The Big Bad". The next years, or the 90's, were the bottom. Jerry and Chuck were in the jungles of the Peten and I was living with my parents in Seymour, Texas. It isn't easy to leave home at 19 and return at 49, but Mom and Dad seemed to need some help so I stayed busy. Jerry came back and forth from Guatemala until about 1990 when he brought his trucks back to the states and we worked in Dilly, Texas of all places. We lived in San Antonio for a while, then moved to Tulsa. He bought an abandoned yacht from a tugboat captain on the Rio Dulce named the "Escapade" which is a story all it's own. In 1991, I went to Guatemala with Jerry and lived on the yacht on the Rio Dulce at Suzzanna's Laguna.

In 1993, I was 50. The only good thing about turning 50 was I was old enough to be a grandmother. Our daughter Kathy brought joy back to our lives with a son whose name is Trevor. In 1994, while in Seymour, Jerry read an add in the "Oilitizer" that someone in Wyoming needed a consultant and he applied. We took dad's old blue pickup and headed for Waltman, Wyoming, and the Raiderville Oilfield which was our new beginning. While in Wyoming, we thought we might as well see Gillette again since we hadn't been back in about 30 years. Well it had really grown! Jerry met an old friend from his Halliburton Days and went to work for Bison Acid & Frac, 3939 Echeta Road.

In 1995, our son Chuck married a girl named, Suzann, in Tampa, Florida. We went from Wyoming to Tampa for the wedding-what a trip! They had a little boy named Griffin in September of 1998. When Griffin was only one month old, we lost my Mom from a stroke. We came back from Wyoming for the funeral. I stayed and had to auction off Mom & Dad's home, as Dad's health just wouldn't let him live alone. Jerry came back and got Dad and I, and we moved him to Wyoming with us.

In 1998 we formed our own acidizing company BISON SERVICES INC. In 2000 Chuck, Suzann and Griffin moved to Gillette and we are helping them get started in the oilfield cementing business.

I have been blessed with a great life, never a dull moment, and I am looking forward to seeing all of you at the Reunion.

Patsy Tabor (Copeland)

I was married and divorced with two daughters and two horses. I met and latter married James Copeland. In all we have six wonderful children--His-Mine-Ours. We have raised five of them. James is an engineer at 3M. We enjoy water skiing with the family and boating. My hobby is caving. I have caved with people from all over the US and several other countries. I am still very active and go caving at least once a month. I have a little tea room (Sunshine Tea Room) here in Brownwood that I started in 1995. I attended college at Cisco Jr. College and Eastern New Mexico University.

Pat Talley (Frisbie)

My parents moved to Odessa the summer after my Sophomore year and I attended Permian and graduated in 1961 from Permian. My parents are both dead now and I really miss them but I will never forgive them for moving me away from Monahans. My best friends were Barbara Applegate, Carter Barron, and Dixie Franklin. I have kept up with Barbara over the years. We lived together in an apartment in Lubbock in 1963/64 and she was the maid of honor at my wedding. About a year ago (maybe two years?) I joined classmates to see what they had on Permian. I found a way to look at Monahans High and found Larry Carter. I e-mailed him to see if he remembered me and he e-mailed back with a long interesting story about where he was and what he was doing. I replied but then never heard from him again. Suddenly a few months ago I was on the list to receive the e-mails about the reunion and all these wonderful people came flooding back into my memories. I have really enjoyed hearing about everyone. Right after graduation in 1961 my parents moved to Midland and I went to Texas Tech. I have only been back to Odessa about three times since then, and I drove through Monahans once about 25 years ago. In Lubbock, I married Richard Frisbie on June 27, 1964, had four great children (and three grandchildren) who are now all grown but live close by. I worked at Texas Tech and put Richard through school from 66 to 69. We then moved to Garland for 4 years and then moved to Austin. I have lived in Austin for the past 28 years and at 2007 Sharon Lane, Austin, TX 78703 for the past 27 years. Richard is a retired Landscape Architect. My phone number is 512/478-5467, and of course you know my e-mail address. I am the Manager of Maintenance and Operations for the CBA Foundation at The University of Texas. Our department was responsible for the acquisition of the 50 million dollar gift to the College of Business Administration from Red McCombs. It is the largest single gift to a College within a University ever! It is like I told Betty May,...I am an "alumni" of Monahans High School in spirit at least... We had a 30 year reunion in Odessa a few years ago (I actually graduated from Permian HS in 61) and I went out of curiosity. I had a good time but I probably won't go again if they have another reunion. I never had friends in Odessa like my friends in Monahans. I just looked in my annual from our sophomore year and I remember a lot of you. Our hobbies are "do-it-yourself" construction projects. We live in a 60 year old house that we have worked on over the years. We have lived in it for 28 years. I'll sign off now,....Thanks for the memories......Pat Talley Frisbie

Judy Tamplin (Lowe)

After graduation, I attended Texas Woman’s University and received a BSN degree in Nursing. I first worked at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, then the United States Air Force, then VA hospitals in Topeka, Kansas and Helena, Montana. Most of this was in critical care and ICU. I was in the USAF from 1967-1972.

I married Jack Lowe in December of 1969. We moved to Great Falls, Montana in January of 1970 (Malstrum AFB). Jennifer was born there. In July of 1972, I got out of the Air Force and moved to Lawrence, Kansas. Jack completed Law School and Jessica was born. I started with the VA hospital in Topeka. In August of 1975, we moved to Helena, Montana. In 1981 I ran in the Governor’s Cup Marathon (completed the 26 miles, 385 yards in 4+ hours). Later that year, we were divorced. My daughters both graduated from college and now live in Seattle and San Francisco. I enjoy quilting, going to quilt shows, collecting fabric, reading and yoga. I plan to retire next year.

John Teague

I joined the Navy before graduating in Feb. of 1960 but completed school very quickly. After getting discharged in May of 1963, I attended Business College in Charleston, West VA. My course of study was accounting and IBM programming (on the early dinosaurs). I then came back to Brownwood, Texas and enrolled at Howard Payne. While there, I met my first wife and we had one son, Patrick. I served in the Houston Jaycees for several years and was nominated one of the Outstanding Young Men of America in 1972. My chosen profession was purchasing management, which I worked in for 25 years, working for Fluor Daniel, Republic Building Corp., and Macdonnell Douglas Aircraft. I met my wife, Paula, in Tulsa in 1980 and we were married the same year. She had three children when we were married, all of which became legally mine as quickly as possible. I found and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ in 1981 and have been growing in Him since then. I owned my own company for about 4 years and worked in sales management for 11 years. The Lord called us into full time ministry in the year 2000. We have been houseparents at South Texas Children’s Home since May of 2000. The Lord has truly blessed our ministry. We have had five boys accept Christ and I was granted the awesome experience of baptizing all of them. I was ordained as a Baptist Minister in July of 2000. I do not preach; however, the boys in our cottage would probably disagree. We are Praising God for all He has done in our lives and continues to do.

Marie Thurman (Austin)

I married in 1962 and had two sons, Steve and Michael Ward. We lived in New Mexico for a couple of years (1964–1966); then moved to Fort Walton Beach, Florida. I never got around to going to college; I could never decide what I wanted to be when I grow up.

In 1972 I started working at Texas Instruments (TI) in Florida and worked there for three years before the plant closed in 1975. My first marriage ended in divorce in 1979, and I moved back to Odessa with my youngest son, Michael. I lived in Monahans for a while and worked at Halliburton from April 1981 to September 1982. Roy Austin and I were married in 1982. That same year I left Halliburton (oil bust) and returned to work at Texas Instruments in Odessa/Midland. In 1983 I transferred to the TI plant in Lewisville, Texas. I worked at TI in Lewisville until Raytheon Systems Company bought out the defense segment of TI and closed the plant in 1999. After the plant closed, Roy and I moved to Stephenville, Texas, and lived there for a year. I tried to retire, but it didn’t work out.

Now I’m back in Plano, Texas, working for Raytheon again (until the next layoff)! I have worked in purchasing for a number of years and enjoy my position as a Supply Chain Specialist. Basically, I am an electronic components commodity buyer. I have worked every aspect of warehousing, inventory control, material management, purchasing and supplier management. During my career at TI/Raytheon I have worked on the HARM Missile Program, Paveway Bomb Program, Javelin Program and have provided purchasing support for various other defense programs. HARM Missiles and Paveway bombs were used extensively in the Desert Storm Gulf War. Looks like we will be using a lot more of them since the September 11 events.

My husband had brain surgery in 1996 and had to retire from his job. He stays at home, fishes, and takes care of our little Cockatiel Bird, Sunny Bird-Austin. We love our little bird, all 3 ounces of her. We take her with us when we travel. My oldest son, Steve, has enjoyed a career of 20 years plus in the Air Force. Steve and his wife Tina have blessed us with three wonderful grandchildren: Daniel, age 16, Robert, age 14, and Katherine, age 11. Steve and his family have been stationed at Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, Louisiana, since 1989. It’s only a two-hour drive to visit the grandkids! My youngest son, Michael, is Vice President at Bank of America in Dallas. Michael and his wife Cheryl live in Plano. No grandchildren from them yet, they are newlyweds as of December 2000.

I enjoy making crafts, sewing, and spending time with the grandchildren and taking care of my little bird. Sorry I missed the reunion, however I enjoy the Wells' web site and check it often to see what’s new.

Morris Usry

I completed high school in England but will always consider Monahans as home. I was in the Air Force and lived in England and Germany (Berlin as the wall went up ). After returning to the USA, I completed college and worked for Recognition Equipment in Dallas as General Manager of electronics production. I have worked for Lockheed Martin for the past 22 years. A couple of years ago my wife and returned from a two year assignment in South Korea. We taught the Koreans how to build F-16 Fighter Aircraft. My current job is Subcontract Management and I work in Los Angeles every other week. My wife, Marie, is from Kermit Texas. I met her on home leave from The Air Force and we married a few years later. We have one son, Mark, he is a UT grad. and a Microsoft Certified Eng. He is the LAN Systems Mgr. for Specialized Products in Grapevine Texas. He also does Laser shows. He and I did the city of Fort Stockton 4th of July show last year. We passed through Monahans and I looked around a bit. The dirt seemed the same but there were new buildings and Casey's and all the other cool drive-ins were gone, as well as the Drive-In movies. What do those people do ? ! ? Call or E-Mail any time, we are always open................Class of '60...

Shirley Vest (Dixon)

I married Eddie Dixon from Kermit, January 1962. Spent the next 25 years scratching my head! When I finally began to figure "it" out, I had four childre