



65 year old married American male with 2 children & 4 precious grandchildren, born in Oklahoma City June 21, 1944 & raised in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Wild as a peach elm boar when I was younger. Since 1971 I have lived in Columbus, Indiana. Worked in the oilfields of Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. First as a floor hand then a derrick man. My youth was spent driving trucks hauling grain from Liberal, Kansas to Houston, Texas. Delivered a load of bailing twine from Houston, Texas to Ft. Smith, Arkansas, took a load of watermelons from Cotulla, Texas to Denver, Colorado for Safeway Grocery Inc. where they placed them on the railroad to deliver back to Cotulla! I delivered a load of mattresses from Chickasha, Oklahoma to Rolla, Missouri. Then I transported produce to New Mexico, Colorado & Missouri. Once was a migrant worker; picking tomatoes, potatoes & prunes in Oregon. I've hoed, picked & chopped cotton in Oklahoma & Mississippi. Spent the summers of my youth pitching hay bales, working the harvest plus driving wheat combines in Oklahoma. Shoed horses & mules in Colorado where I worked at Stupid Charley Guest Ranch in Mancos, Colorado & The Arapaho Hunt Club in Littleton, Colorado. Was an apprentice embalmer and an ambulance driver too! Also an assistant grocery manager, sold insurance for Mutual of Omaha and Allstate Insurance Company. I believe that I've been there and done that! While shoeing horses and mules on a dude ranch in Mancos, Colorado I met my wife. After 30 minutes asked her to marry me. On August 1st, 2009 we celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary! Received an Honorable Discharge from Uncle Sam's Mean Children on January 9, 1964.

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