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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Poke78" data-source="post: 3966310" data-attributes="member: 4333">Dad: born 1919, both parents dead by the time he turned 12, raised by his oldest brother. Worked in the KS oil field until he went in the Army Air Corps in the run-up to WW2, served in N. Africa & England, returned to KS after the war, worked some as a meat cutter, a short while with Halliburton, then returned to Texaco where he had worked before the war. Stayed there as a pumper or roustabout until his passing in 1973.Mom: born 1924, her dad was a railroad sheet metal repair welder for Santa Fe, her mom was a telephone operator. Went to nursing school out of HS, graduated 1945, worked as an RN the rest of her work life for clinics, hospitals, surgeons, and, finally in a nursing home. Retired & eventually spent her last couple of weeks in the same nursing home where she had worked.</blockquote>