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Message: <blockquote data-quote="icarus_85" data-source="post: 3966390" data-attributes="member: 40891">Mom was the oldest and had only one brother.  She grew up working in my grandparent's little neighborhood grocery store.  She graduated HS in 1952, then went to a small college not far from her home.  During her sophomore year in college, she married my dad who had returned from the Korean War and started college.  Dad was 3 years older than my mom.  Mom finished her second year and began having children.  Later when my brothers and I were old enough, she worked as a secretary and social worker for Oklahoma DHS.  My mother got MS in her early 40's and pass at 55 years old in 1988.Dad was born in 1932 and was the youngest of 6 brothers and a sister.  When he was a boy, he worked on the family farm picking cotton and raising animals.  He later worked at a small gas station/garage while in HS.  He graduated HS in 1950 and moved to West Texas to work in the oil fields with his older brothers. He was barely 18.  Before that summer was over, he went back home to join up with several other boys who were shipping out to fight in the Korean War.  He was there just under 3 years and came home. He married my mother and started college.  He got a degree in accounting and applied to OCU Law School in 1956-57.  He received his law degree and started his first job at the old Oklahoma ABC (Alcohol & Beverage Commission Board), now known as the ABEL Commission.  Later, we moved back to their hometown.  He worked in his own practice for a while and then was elected Associate D.A., and finally was selected as an Associate District Judge.  His last job was as a practicing attorney until his untimely death at the age of 49.  While in Korea he contracted rheumatic fever unknowingly damaged his heart.  Later, after heart surgery to repair a valve, his health never really recovered and he passed in early 1982.My parents both passed at a relatively young age, but they instilled a good work ethic in me and my two older brothers.  I turn 61 in April and remember all the good things about them.  It warms my heart.</blockquote>

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