Canadian High School - Beargrass Yearbook (Canadian, TX)

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LOUISE GREEN SPILKER 1414 Trllllum Ct Indlanapolls IN 46219 C317 898 39927 I attended T S C W at Denton TX durlng 1941 1942 before taklng a buslness course 1D Amarlllo I was soon employed at the Foxworth Galbralth Lumber Co as Secretary Bookkeeper I met my husband to be at a USO dance 1D Amarlllo 1D late 1942 He was LewJs Spllker of Indlanapolls ln the Army statloned at the Amarlllo Alr Force Base We marrled ln 1943 and son new Our and llved 1D an apartment 1D Amarlllo untll the end of the war Our flrst John was born 1D 1944 We moved to Indlananapolls ln 1945 bullt a home and my husband eventually became employed at the E11 Lllly Co second son Rlchard was born lh 1949 These sons grew up marrled located 1D the Indlanapolls area They have glven us three wonderful granddaughters In 1954 I enrolled at an Indlanapolls Unlverslty Butler and contlnued untll I recelved my BS degree 1D 1959 I was employed at a local Jr Hlgh School where I taught home economlcs for ten years I 1964 I recelved my MS degree from Purdue Unlverslty I changed to teachlng famlly l1v1ng and psychology 1D a local Sr Hlgh School where I stayed unt1l my retlrement 1D 1985 I have been actlve ln our church and varlous women s organlzatlons and have taught Sunday School Classes for Chrlstlan Educatlon a state teachers sororlty and church assoclatlon s women s group My husband and I have enjoyed travellng to Europe 3 tlmes Vlrgln Islands Abaco Islands Hawallan Islands as well as numerous Canadlan provlnces and. Unlted States My' health was good untll 1988 when Q1 was dlagnosed as havlng ovarlan cancer I underwent varlous treatments and surgerles before the cancer was 1D remlsslon In 1991 the cancer returned and more treatments were necessary So far I have had 10 weeks of hospltallzatlon and. more to go Hopefully the cancer can be put lnto remlsslon agaln Llfe has been good to me and that educatlon at CHS seems to have served me well No plcture 1 MAXINE WINKLE TRULY avallab 8 4612 Brldlewood Dr Dallas TX 75211 7812 C214 337 38279 As much as I would llke to contrlbute somethlng to thls project I honestly can not thlnk of anythlng that would be of lnterest to anyone other than myself Then to I am not what you would call a wrlter' For the has boy and and past forty years or so I have called Dallas home Most of my llfe been spent belng a housewlfe and mother I have three chlldren one and two lovely daughters Between them there are flve grandchlldren one great grandchlld I enjoy stamp collectlng bowllng craft work baseball card collectlng Among other thlngs I am a member of the Lloness Club and Eastern Star. For almost slx years I have been a wldow. Durlng the summer months I almost llve 1D the yard. It 1sn't real blg, but a full t1me Job for me. For two years stralght lt was voted Hprettlest yard on the blocku. - ,N . 1 1 1 . ' ' . n over 35 years. I have served as president of my church, Board of . . . ' , . a Y 1 u '

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OLEY WILSON 2029 Sallal Road Woodburn OR 97071 Followlng graduatlon at CHS I att Panhandle A S M College at Goodwell Oklahoma for a couple of years Then I dld a short stlnt 1U the Army Alr Corp comlng home to farm for my Dad who was 111 In 1946 I marrled June Ward a 1944 grad of CHS We llved ID Canadlan and I had several jobs Our daughter Loulse was born In 1948 and our son Rlchard was born lH 1951 In 1955 after a unlque dlvlne prod I flnally answered a llfe long call to the mlnlstry We moved to Abllene and I enrolled 1D McMurry College also taklng the job of Youth Dlrector at the Flrst Methodlst Church there Before graduation I became student pastor of two small churches Flnlshlng McMurry I enrolled at Perklns School of Theology at S M U Agaln I had two rural churches whlle attendlng School Upon my graduatlon and ordlnatlon 1D 1961 we moved to southern Mlnnesota My home Conference of Northwest Texas was full at the tlme and semlnary graduates were belng lntervlewed and sought by Dlstrlct Superlntendents from varlous parts of the country We felt led to go to Mlnnesota and spent twenty two happy and productlve years there In 1983 I became dlsabled and had to take dlsablllty leave whlch contlnued untll the date of my scheduled retlrement We now llve 1D Woodburn Or ibetween Salem and Portland! where June has relatlves We are ln a corporatlon Senlor Estates Golf and Country Club which lS a retlremert center We don t play golf but enjoy the other beautlful facllltles especlally the swlmmlng pool And we have a wonderful Unlted Methodlst Church nearby where we flnd help and love JERRY PONDER ROUSH 5709 Berget Amarlllo TX 79106 1806 353 02661 After graduatlng from Canadlan Hlgh School I attended Texas Tech Unlverslty along wlth Peggy O Nelll and Betty Ann Studer As we all know the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and World War II started that year I flnlshed only one semester because my parents moved to Amarillo and I declded to attend Buslness SChool there After flnlshlng school I went to work for The Cotton Belt and Southern Paclflc Rallroad as a secretary and later for Southland Llfe Insurance Company I was lnvolved lH the J S O and met my husband who was statloned at Amarlllo Alr Force Base We were marrled 1D 1944 and 5 months later he was sent overseas to the south Pac f c He was gone for about a year when he returned we settled down and he was 1D the bulldlng buslness We llved 1D Amarlllo all our marrled life except for one year when we moved to Wlchlta Kansas whlle my husband dld a houslng proJect We had a daughter 1D 1947 and a son lh 1953 I dld not work full tlme whlle our children were growlng up My husband died ln January of 1978 from a heart attack I went to work 1D Aprll of that year for Zales Jewelers and worked there for l2 years I am now retired and am fortunate to have both my daughter and son and hls famlly llvlng here I am blessed wlth two darllng granddaughters and keep busy wlth church actlvltles frlends and famlly r . . . . . . . , . . , , . . . - . , . .L - r r r . . ,I . . . ,, r ' r 1 r . , n. - 1 . . . , . . . . . . . . . .. . . - . . . . . , . . , . . . v . - . , 1 4 - I . . . . . - . . , . . . . - r . . r - . I , L ' I . . ' . . , Y ' r . - . . Y ' 4 , . - . r fu .3 .1 xg.. , . r ' - . . . I . A - ' . . . ' 1 ' - ' . s . 1 . . . , . , ' . r 1 9

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MARGARET ELLEN HUTTON WEATHERBY 3104 Covert Ave Ft Worth TX 76l33 After graduatlng CHS I attended West Texas State Unlverslty and recelved my degree ln Publlc School Muslc I taught school ln Dumas Shamrock and Crandall whlch lS S E of Dallas I dld flllng for a short tlme at Sears 1D Dallas Gordon Weatherby and I were lnarrled lH September l946 1D Denver Colorado Gordon lS ea veteran of World War II havlng served overseas as a pllot We were based 1D Tennessee Alabama Florlda and Connectlcut where Gordon lnstructed alr sclence and tactlcs at Yale Unlverslty Ft Worth has been our home for 39 years Followlng some grad work at TCU I taught school 1D the Ft Worth school system for twenty years Before hls retirement Gordon was an englneerlng wrlter at General Dynamlcs Alrcraft Plant 1D Ft Worth My hobbles have been muslc geneology palntlng and collectlng art of the lmpresslonlsts Pierre Renlor Claude Monet Maurlce Utrlllo Mary Cassett and others Needless to say genealogy fEDQllSh and French! and muslc are endless llfe tlme pursults J M THRASHER 400 Jupiter Pampa TX 79065 C806 665 30281 After I flnlshed hlgh school I began worklng for the rallroad I worked for several months before I jolned the Navy where I served for three and one half years 1D the South PaClflC on two shlps Upon dlscharge from the Navy I returned to Canadlan and resumed worklng for the rallroad There I met and marrled Mlldred Chaffln We were blessed wlth two chlldren Kennlth of Canadlan and Kay of Pampa Each of them have four chlldren worked for the rallroad for forty three years retlrlng at age slxty I now reslde ln Pampa and have some deallngs wlth cattle 1 . - r r . . , , , . . Q I ' r ' 1 r r r , . ' I . . - . . 6 . , . . . . . . - r r I I r I ' r x . Q I , . . - r , . . . . . . 0 r - . . , . . I . . . . , . . . . . r v 1