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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glock &#039;em down" data-source="post: 3966232" data-attributes="member: 684">My parents owned a small, hometown market/deli (pre convenience store) in Claremore, Oklahoma in the 70s. Dad also worked for Phillips 66 as a service station attendant/asst. manager on the Will Rogers turnpike.In the summer of 1978, he received word of a position opening at the Hanna, Oklahoma station on the Indian Nation turnpike, which was closer to his hometown, Holdenville. So they sold the store and the house and we moved to Holdenville in the spring of 79. My oldest brother was furious! It was gonna be his senior year at Claremore High School, and he had to leave it all behind and go to a new, rural, country school, Moss.In late 1983, T. Boone Pickens was having a heyday buying out all oil companies that he could get his hands on. Phillips Petroleum being one of them. The Hanna station where my father worked was one of the first ones on the list, so he was transferred to the station in Bristow. So dad bought a small, but livable travel trailer and moved to Bristow, working during the week and coming home on most weekends.By fall of 1985, the Bristow station was also closed, and they were gonna send dad to a station in Vinita, Oklahoma. Not appreciating that 3 hour drive from home, he was offered a partial retirement and he took it at the age of 50 years old.But retirement was not in the cards for my folks. In 1990, they bought a local cafe/deli in town and ran it for about six years, before one of their employees took interest in ownership, and they sold it to her lock, stock and barrel.By 1996, they finally paid off their home and cars and settled in for a good long retirement, that they did enjoy until their deaths. Mom died from a UTI that had gone septic on June 10, 2018...dad just 11 days later from cancer.</blockquote>

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