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Pete Rowland
Pete
says his best days were in the 5th and 6th grades at
Riverview Elementary and when he was recommended for participation in Basketball
and Football programs at Central while he was attending
Horace
Mann
Junior High School. He didn't go out for
football but did go out for basketball and was on the B-team until he broke his
right arm and left the program.
As a mover and shaker he dated
Marilyn
Miller
,
Karen
Baldwin
,
Lauane
Fagg
and after graduation, Judy Irons (above) who he married in 1958.
Immediately after graduation he went to work for Sunray Oil (DX) and
spent five years in
Tulsa
then moved to
Midland
and
Snyder
,
Texas
. In 1961 he joined Gulf Oil
in
Tulsa
but only worked with them for forty years!
Positions ranged from Accounting, Salesman, and Office Manager.
Pete
and
Judy
have two boys, one an attorney in
Tulsa
and the other a District Manager with
Lowes
.
Judy
and
Pete
were divorced in 1974 and she passed away in 1994.
Pete
remarried a beauty from
Canton
,
OH
, who he met in church in 1975 where she was an organist and they are still
happily married over 28 years later!
Mary
Lou
has two daughters from a previous marriage and they have been blessed with five
super grandchildren.
Retirement came in 1996 living on two acres in a
Houston
suburb. He says afflictions brought
on by old age limit his recreational activities to reading, managing investments
and taking care of two acres of property. He
still plays the guitar which he has been learning to play for the past 50+
years. His arthritic problems
prohibit him from his love of dancing. And
there are those multiple surgeries … some twice … on back, shoulder, eyes
and both hands.
Pete
is a mover.
Tulsa
,
Midland
,
Snyder
,
Ft.
Smith
,