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Arlee Claud Gowen , son of Claud Franklin Gowen and Ora Ethel Cox Gowen , was born November
24, 1922 at Lamesa, Texas. He attended
McCarty community school and Lamesa public schools, graduating from Lamesa High
School in May 1939. For two years prior
to graduation he was employed by "Lamesa Reporter," weekly newspaper
on which he worked as a "printer's devil."
In September 1939 he enrolled in Texas Technological College
. During his undergraduate days he was
employed as a printer at Wood Printing Company and Texas Tech Press. Later he was a sportswriter on the
"Lubbock Avalanche-Journal."
He was graduated in June 1943 with a BA degree in journalism.
On October 27, 1942 he volunteered into the U. S. Naval Reserve
as an aviation cadet and, prior to reporting for active duty, was employed on
the flightline by Breedlove Aerial Service, flight training contractor for U.S.
Army Air Corps. His naval training
began at University of Texas where his physical training officer was "the
meanest man that ever walked the face of the earth," Coach Paul
"Bear" Bryant, who was later one of the winningest coaches in college
football at Texas A&M University and University of Alabama. After additional training at Great Lakes
Naval Training Station and the University of Notre Dame he was commissioned an
ensign at South Bend, Indiana.
Additional duty assignments took him to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida;
Newport, Rhode Island and Newport News, Virginia.
He was assigned to the USS Randolph as its construction was being completed. As a "plank
owner" on the new aircraft carrier he was aboard on its shake-down cruise
to Trinidad. Following refitting and
renovation the USS Randolph joined the Fifth Fleet operating in the Pacific
theatre, arriving on station there via the Panama Canal, San Francisco and
Hawaii.
The USS Randolph joined the fleet in the island anchorage of
Ulithi atoll and participated in the war against Japan until its conclusion,
taking part in the Battles of Bonin Islands, Iwo Jima, Io Shima, Okinawa and
air strikes on Tokyo, Kyushu, Minami Daita Jima and the Nansei Shoto,
operating with the Fifth Fleet, the Third Fleet, Task Force 58 and Task Force
38. After the signing of the peace
treaty with Japan in Tokyo Bay in August 1945 the ship returned to Baltimore,
Maryland October 27, 1945 for a Navy Day victory celebration. He was awarded four battle stars and six
campaign ribbons for service in the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic and
Mediterranean theaters. He was cited
for "conspicuous gallantry" by Admiral Mark Mitscher in an attack by
enemy aircraft at Ulithi when his ship was hit and severely damaged by
Kamikazi aircraft.
Later the USS Randolph made shuttle trips to Naples, Italy to
deliver Italian war prisoners and to return to the United States groups of
U.S. Army nurses.
In December 1945 Lt.Arlee Claud Gowen received a transfer to Naval Air Transport Service and was
stationed successively in Norfolk, Virginia; Patuxent River, Maryland; Olathe,
Kansas and Amarillo, Texas.
On February 16, 1946 he was married to May Belle
"Bonnie" Bonner , daughter of Joseph Drew Bonner and Alice Belle Hestand Bonner in Crane, Texas by Eddie E. Myers, minister
of the gospel, according to Ector County, Texas Marriage Book 5, page 246. May Belle "Bonnie" Bonner
Gowen had graduated from Texas Technological
College in June 1945 and was a teacher in Phillips, Texas High School at the
time of their marriage. After a
honeymoon in New Mexico the couple lived at Pantex, Texas near Amarillo Army
Air Base where he was stationed. He was separated from naval service June 6,
1946 at Galveston, Texas, and they moved immediately to Lubbock where they had
met in college.
In 1946 Arlee Claud Gowen
assisted in the organizing and founding of "South- western Crop and
Stock," a farm magazine. He was
named editor of the publication which printed its first edition in January
1947. May Belle "Bonnie"
Bonner Gowen was a teacher at
Hutchinson Junior High School in Lubbock at that time. In 1955 he became a deacon and a bible
school teacher at Broadway Church of Christ.
In August 1956 he assisted in the organization of High Plains
Credit Corporation and was named executive vice-president of organization while
continuing in the publishing business.
In 1959 he established a wholesale electronic supply which became known
as Electros, Inc. In 1961 he purchased
a farm in Bailey County, Texas. In April 1965 the couple applied for a
distributorship with Amway Corporation and in November of that year became
direct distributors with that organization.
He had become interested in family history research in 1941 and
continued to pursue that interest for many years. In September 1986 he entered a manuscript, "The Widder
Dyches" in the Texas Sesquicentennial competition. It was adjudged first place winner and was
displayed in the Hall of State at the State Fair of Texas alongside the original
Texas Declaration of Independence. In
March 1987 he was named to the board of directors of the South Plains
Genealogical Society.
Having sold their publishing, finance and electronics interests
the couple in June 1987 lived in Lubbock where they continued to operate their
Amway distributorship from their home at 5708 Gary Avenue.
Children born to Arlee Claud Gowen and May Belle "Bonnie" Gowen include:
Bonnie Lee
Gowen born December 16,
1951
Connie Louise
Gowen born July 3, 1954
Bonnie Lee Gowen , daughter of Arlee Claud Gowen and May Belle "Bonnie" Gowen ,
was born December 16, 1951 in Lubbock, according to Texas BVS File 207127. Her first home was at 3107 30th Street in
Lubbock, her second was at 3413 20th street, and in 1970 her family removed to
5708 Gary Avenue.
After attending Lubbock Christian School and Lubbock public
schools she was graduated from Lubbock High School in 1970. Following two years at Texas Tech University
she transferred to North Texas State University at Denton, Texas where she was
graduated with a BS degree in May 1975.
Following graduate work there in chemistry and computer science she was
married June 16, 1979 to David Michael Hill , son of David Hill and Betty Hill
of Plano, Texas.
David Michael Hill , a graduate of North Texas State University
and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of Viet Nam, was employed in the university's
computer complex where they met. In
June 1979 she was employed by Mostek Corporation, A, Texas, as a computer
engineer, and two years later she was employed by Phillips Coal Division,
Phillips Petroleum Company, Richardson, Texas as a systems analyst.
In November 1984 they made their home at Lewisville where he was
employed as a satellite communications engineer with Bell of Canada in nearby
Richardson At that time she was
employed by Cray Research Corporation, a supercomputer manufacturer as a
systems analyst. In April 1985 she was
employed by Convex Corporation, a computer manufacturer in Richardson. In May 1985 they purchased a home at 2405
Golden Oaks, Garland, Texas.
Connie Louise Gowen , daughter of Arlee Claud Gowen and May Belle "Bonnie" Bonner
Gowen , was born July 3, 1954 in Lubbock, Texas, according to BVS File No.
118566. She attended Lubbock Christian
School and Lubbock public schools and was graduated from Monterey High School
in 1973. During her undergraduate days
she worked for the City of Lubbock in its Parks & Recreation Department,
for Globe Department Store and as a waitress for International House of
Pancakes, Ramada Inn and Big Texan Steak House. She was graduated from Texas Tech University with a BS degree in
1976 and from University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Texas in June 1979
with an M.D. degree.
In July 1979 she began a surgery residency at Queens Medical
Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. In July
1981 she began a period of residency at Veterans Administration Hospital,
Johnson City, Tennessee.
She was married there June 25, 1983 to Darryl William Hiers ),
son of Dr. Donald Grover Hiers and
Gypsy Lee Whitten Hiers . In July 1983
she began the practice of plastic surgery in Chattanooga, Tennessee at
Erlanger Hospital in association with the University of Tennessee. He was graduated there from the University
of Tennessee with a B.S. degree May 6, 1985.
In July 1985 she established a plastic surgery practice at
Jonesboro, Arkansas, and they purchased a home there at 601 Arrowhead Drive,
within 100 yards of the original homestead of James Gowen who settled there before 1870!
In January 1987 she was inducted into "Who's Who of
American Women."
Willie Elmer Cox , son of James Madison Cox and Amanda Lucinda "Cindy" McCall
Cox , was born September 30, 1896 at Leander, Texas. He apeared as a three-year-old in the 1900 census of Williamson
County, living in his father's household.
His family removed to Albany, Texas in 1906 and to Young County in 1908,
to Round Timbers, Texas in 1909 and to Altus, Oklahoma in 1911. His father moved the family to Weed, New
Mexico in 1915. He registered his
cattle brand "JC" with the State of New Mexico May 23, 1917.
When his father was killed by gunshot there the following year
at a sawmill the 20-year-old Willie Elmer Cox
rode onto the scene with his pistol ready to avenge his father's
death. He raced his pony around and around
the sawmill trying to get a shot at his father's adversary without providing a
stationary target himself. Calmer heads finally prevailed upon him to leave
justice to the law.
Willie Elmer Cox and his
mother returned to Texas in 1920, locating on a farm in Stonewall County, and
was married at Swenson, Texas January 16, 1921 to Effie Elmo Ramsey who was born March 25, 1903 in Stonewall
County. In 1924 he began farming in
the Klondike community of Dawson County and in 1930 bought the community
grocery store there. He died of
peritonitis following an appendectomy February 16, 1936, at age 39, and was
buried in Lamesa Cemetery.
In 1939 Effie Elmo Ramsey Cox
and her son lived in Seagraves, Texas.
Later she returned to Lamesa.
She died April 18, 1956 and was buried beside her husband.
One son was born to Willie Elmer Cox and Effie Elmo Ramsey Cox .
Dorman Elmer
Cox born June 11, 1924
Dorman Elmer Cox , son of Willie Elmer Cox and Effie Elmo Ramsey Cox , was born June
11, 1924 in Dawson County. He was
inducted November 13, 1942 at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma in the U.S. Army Corps and
received his basic training at Shepherd Field, Wichita Falls, Texas. He was married January 24, 1943 in
Waresboro, Georgia to Meddie Rilla Chauncey , who was born in Waycross,
Georgia January 24, 1923. She was one
of 13 children of William Sylvester Chauncey
and Emma Riberton Chauncey .
Shortly afterward he was stationed in India and served in the C.B.I.
theatre during World War II. He was
discharged from the Air Corps November 2, 1945 at Ft. McPherson, Atlanta,
Georgia.
Following a short residency in Georgia he returned to Lamesa
where he was employed in carpentry.
After a brief period the family returned to Waycross where they were
living October 25, 1946. After a short
employment on a chicken farm in Callahan, Florida he brought his family back to
Lamesa where he was employed as a carpenter.
In 1955 they lived briefly in Odessa, Texas and then moved to Lubbock
where he was employed as a Dr. Pepper route salesman.
Later he was employed in the printing department of
"Southwestern Crop & Stock."
Afterwards he was employed as a "glassblower" and lathe
operator in the cathode ray tube plant of Electros, Inc.
Meddie Rilla Chauncey Cox
contracted cancer about 1956, and the family removed to Jacksonville,
Florida in 1959 so she could be near her family. She died there March 16, 1960 and was buried in the Chauncey
family cemetery in Telmore, Georgia.
The family returned to Lubbock and resumed his association with
Electros, Inc.
Dorman Elmer Cox was
remarried September 7, 1962 to Ollie Maurice Green Ramsey . Shortly afterward she was graduated from
Lubbock School of Vocational Nurses.
In 1966 the removed to Ft. Worth, Texas where he was employed as a
printer for Manney Co. She was a nurse
at John Peter Smith Hospital. Later she
was director of nurses at Fireside Nursing Home.
Ollie Maurice Green Ramsey Cox
died October 30, 1975 of a heart condition. He was remarried January 8,
1976 to "her best friend," Mildred Louise Nickens Becker , a nurse
who was employed with her and a mother of four. She was born November 30, 1923 in St. Louis, Missouri.
In September 1983 he continued to live in Ft. Worth where he was
employed as a super-intendent for a construction company. Later he was a partner in C&R Construction
Co. He was incapacitated for a time in a construction accident in December 1984
in which his right leg was fractured in six places. In November 1987 he continued in Ft. Worth in retirement.
Children born to Dorman Elmer Cox and Meddie Rilla Chauncey Cox
include:
Kenneth Dorman Cox born September 3, 1944
Linda Dardanella Cox born October 25, 1946
Gary Allen Cox born February 9, 1951
Stephen Elmer Cox born
January 28, 1956
No children were born to Dorman Elmer Cox and Ollie Maurice Green Ramsey Cox , but
they adopted a daughter and assumed foster parenthood of another:
Doyla Letta Cox born
October 21, 1967
Theresa Ann Lairmore
born December 1, 1969
Kenneth Dorman Cox , son of Dorman Elmer Cox and Meddie Rilla Chauncey Cox , was born
September 3, 1944 in Waycross. He
attended school in Lamesa, Odessa and Lubbock and was graduated there in 1963
from Monterey High School. Following
graduation he was employed by Hemphill-Wells Company and Electros, Inc. In August 1963 he enlisted in the U. S.
Marine Corps and received a medical discharge from the corps in December
1963. Later he was a student at University
of Florida.
He was married August 15, 1970 to Mary Virginia Allencia . They were divorced in 1972 in
Houston. He was remarried November 20,
1972 to Chloe Lou Schumacher in Ft.
Worth. They were divorced shortly
afterward. He was remarried April 28,
1984 to Peggy Ann Threat, a mother of three.
In 1985 he, a construction supervisor, lived in Ft. Worth.
Children born to Kenneth Dorman Cox and Mary Virginia Allencia Cox
include: Rilla Theresa Cox born March 22, 1972
No children were born to Kenneth Dorman Cox , Chloe Lou
Schumacher Cox and Peggy Ann Threat
Cox.
Linda Dardanella Cox , daughter of Dorman Elmer Cox and Meddie Rilla Chauncey Cox , was born
October 25, 1946 in Waycross. She was
graduated from Monterey High School in 1965.
Following graduation she was enrolled in Lubbock School of Vocational
Nurses where she was elected president of her class and was graduated with
honors. She took her state board
examinations in May 1967 and was employed by John Peter Smith Hospital. In an 18-year tenure there she has risen to
supervisory capacity.
She was married February 14, 1977 to Jeffery Lynn Becker , son
of her step-mother, Mildred Louise Nickens Becker Cox and William Becker . No children had been born to them in
February 1985.
Gary Allen Cox , son of Dorman Elmer Cox and Meddie Rilla Chauncey Cox , was born
February 9, 1951 in Lamesa. He attended
public school in Lubbock and Ft. Worth and enrolled in the latter city in
Tarrant County Junior College.
He was married September 20, 1971 in Ft. Worth to Donna Lee
"Jingles" Peters In 1972
they lived in Beckley, West Virginia.
They were divorced in 1974 in Oklahoma.
In 1978 he was remarried to Rita Darlene Gilpin , daughter of William
Franklin Gilpin and Lela Irene Lampp
Gilpin of Ft. Worth. In February 1985
he was supervisor of construction and maintenance at John Peter Smith Hospital
and lived at River Oaks, Texas.
Children born to Gary Allen Cox and Donna Lee
"Jingles" Peters Cox include:
Larry Allen Cox born March 22, 1972
Children born to Gary Allen Cox
and Rita Darlene Gilpin Cox
in-clude:
Misty Amber Cox born January 21, 1980
Stephen William Cox born July 24, 1982
Stephen Elmer Cox , son of Dorman Elmer Cox and Meddie Rilla Chauncey Cox , was born
January 28, 1956 in Lubbock. He
attended public school in Lubbock and Ft. Worth. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy April 17, 1975 and received his
basic training in Orlando, Florida.
Later he attended a naval electronics school in Chicago, Illinois. He was discharged September 17, 1976.
He was married November 24, 1978 to Karen Dawn Stanfill in Ft. Worth. They were divorced in 1980.
He was married June 9, 1984 in Las Vegas, Nevada to Rhonda Karen Richard
Chasteen , daughter of Norman Richard
and Sondra Sher Richard .
In 1985 he, the owner of Creative Wood Crafts, continued to live
in Ft. Worth. No children were born to
Stephen Elmer Cox , Karen Dawn Stanfill Cox
and Rhonda Karen Richard Chasteen Cox .
Doyla Letta Cox , adopted daughter of Dorman Elmer Cox and Ollie Maurice Green Ramsey Cox , was
born October 21, 1967 in Ft. Worth. In
1985 she continued in the home of her parents.
She was involved in an automobile accident June 16, 1985 and continued
in a coma for several weeks. She
survived and was living in a Ft. Worth nursing home in November 1987.
Theresa Ann Lairmore-Cox , foster daughter of Dorman Elmer
Cox and Ollie Maurice Green Ramsey Cox
, was born December 1, 1969 in California.
In 1970 she came into their home.
She died February 15, 1985 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound
to her temple. She had a history of epileptic
seizures and had recently been gripped by the debilitating malady. Her organs were donated to transplant
patients, and she was buried in Azleland Memorial Park.
Dan Malone, staff writer for "Ft. Worth
Star-Telegram," wrote an article around the suicide note which she left
for her family:
"The two-page note that Theresa Ann Lairmore-Cox left her
family on Valentine's
Day was full of love.
But when her father reads it now, it brings tears to his
eyes and a tremor to his voice.
Theresa, a 15-year-old freshman at Boswell High School, wrote
her farewell
Thursday morning, moments before squeezing the trigger of the
pistol she had
placed to her head. She
died Friday at John Peter Smith Hospital.
Theresa's father, Dorman E. Cox, says he does not know why his
daughter killed
herself. Her note did
not explain it, although she expressed concerns about her epilepsy and anxiety
about her health, he said.
"She had been having epileptic seizures, but hadn't been
bothered for some time. Here this last
week she had two. She had a real strong
one on Monday, which seemed to bother her a lot, then she had another one on
Tuesday," Cox said Saturday evening, "She was worried about going
back and having these seizures."
On Thursday morning Cox woke Theresa up for school, then drove
his wife Mildred to work. When he
returned about 30 minutes later, at about 8 a.m, he found Theresa's note, and a
moment later, her lifeless body in her bed.
He also found his .22-caliber revolver in her bed with one discharged
shell. What he didn't find was a wound
or blood.
She was taken to JPS, where doctors found a small wound in her
temple, Cox said. The teen-ager was
kept on life-support systems until Friday, Cox said. Cox said Theresa had never attempted to take her life before and
gave no indication that she was upset before her death.
On Wednesday night she talked to Doyla Letta and one of my sons,
Gary. They were over
here talking, laughing, cutting up as usual,' he said. 'One of her girlfriends had been down for a
little bit, and they been out for a while.
I think they walked down to the store.'
On the back of Theresa's photograph, printed at right, she had
written message to her brother and sister-in-law, 'To Gary and Darlene Cox
& kids,' she wrote, 'Look now cause this will be the last time you'll see
me in a picture. Love ya, Theresa.'
Cox said he believed that his daughter's words reflected her
dissatisfaction with how the picture turned out, rather than a warning of her
troubled mind. He said she accepted
life on its own terms, 'She didn't expect much out of life--she was pretty
content with what she had and got.'
Cox is not Theresa's father, though he is the only father figure
she ever knew.
Her father died of cancer when she was an infant. After her father's death
Theresa was left in her grandfather's care until arrangements
were made to place her in Cox's custody.
Cox, a relative of Theresa's through a previous marriage, became her
legal guardian.
Cox asked that the note that Theresa left not be published, but
he offers a general description. She
left word of her love for her family and a plea to understand what she did--if
not why, 'It was just her way of saying goodbye and God bless you.'
Theresa will be buried at Azleland Memorial Park on Monday--the
day that she was supposed to see her doctor about the latest round of
seizures."
James Alvia Cox , son of James Madison Cox and Amanda Lucinda "Cinda" McCall
Cox , was born August 12, 1898 in Williamson County. In 1901 his family lived in Menard, Texas and in the same year
moved to Nolan County, Texas, returned to Williamson County in 1905, moved to
Albany in 1906, farmed in Young County, Texas in 1908, moved to Round Timbers,
Texas in 1909 and to Altus, Oklahoma in 1911.
In 1915, while living in Throckmorton County, Texas, his father was
influenced to move to Weed, New Mexico to homestead land there.
James Alvia Cox was
married September 1, 1919 at Cloudcroft, New Mexico to Mary Margaret
"Maggie" Drennan , his third cousin, once-removed, who was born in
January 1901. They were not aware of
their relationship until his sister, Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox
Drennan began to research the family
history about 1958. Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan was the daughter of Thomas Braxton
"Brack" Drennan and Mary Ann Britt Drennan .
In 1920 James Alvia Cox
and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox lived in Breckenridge, Texas. In 1923 they lived in Ajo, California, and
in 1924 in Compton, California. He
wrote his mother at that time that he was earning $1 an hour as a concrete
finisher. In 1925 they returned to
Texas. He was operating a service station
in the Klondike community of Dawson County across the intersection from the grocery
later owned by his brother. He was shot
and killed there February 6, 1929 by W. E. Duke.
A newspaper story regarding the shooting appeared in the
February 7 edition of "The Lubbock Journal:"
LAMESA, Feb. 7--J. A. Cox, filling station operator of the
Klondyke community, fifteen miles southwest of here, was shot and instantly
killed late last night. W. E. Duke,
pastor of the Midway Baptist Church, near Lamesa, surrendered to officers
shortly after the shooting.
Both Cox and Duke are from prominent Dawson County
families. In addition to his ministry,
the Rev. Duke is owner and operator of a store at Klondyke, where he and his
family live. The shooting occurred in
front of the Duke store. The Rev. Mr. Duke
has been pastor there for the past five years.
The Rev. Mr. Duke would make no statement this morning
concerning the tragedy following a conference with Judge J. E. Garland. County Attorney A. W. Gibson announced that
an examining trial would be held today.
No cause for the shooting could be advanced today by Sheriff Joe L. Ray
or Deputy A. M. Bennett of Dawson County.
Mr. Cox is survived by his widow, four children, one brother and
other relatives. The body is being
held in a local undertaking establishment awaiting arrival of relatives."
He was buried in Lamesa Cemetery.
Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox was remarried about 1932 to Calvin Shipley and continued to live in Lamesa where they
operated a taxi service. Later they removed to Seminole, Texas and continued to
operate a taxi service. She died there
in 1982.
Children born to James Alvia Cox and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox include:
James Carlton
"Pete" Cox born
July 18, 1920
Desmond Ray
Cox born
September 1, 1921
Margaret DeMelba
Cox born July 31,
1923
James Alvia Cox,
Jr. born December 1,
1925
Children born to Calvin Shipley
and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan Cox Shipley include:
Billie Kasteen
Shipley born June 2, 1933
Jerry Mack
Shipley born
October 10, 1934
Gary Paul
Shipley born
October 12, 1941
James Carlton "Pete" Cox , son of James Alvia Cox and Mary Margaret "Maggie"
Drennan Cox , was born July 18, 1920 at Breckenridge, Texas. During World War II he served as a hospital
corpsman stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas near El Paso. He was married there about 1941 to Dorothy Faye Hitchcock .
Following military service he became a doctor of chiropractic
and developed his practice in El Paso where he continued in November 1987.
Children born to James Carlton "Pete" Cox and Dorothy Faye Hitchcock Cox include:
James Carlton
Cox, Jr. born September 1, 1942
Phillip Curtis Cox born February 25, 1944
Desmond Ray Cox , son of James Alvia Cox and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan
Cox , was born September 1, 1921.
Following U.S. Army service during World War II he was married to Agnes
Kay Way Kidd , a widow with two daughters.
They resided in Ft. Worth where he was employed as a metalsmith. No children were born to Desmond Ray
Cox and Agnes Kay Way Kidd Cox .
Margaret DeMelba Cox , daughter of James Alvia Cox and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan
Cox , was born July 31, 1923 in Ajo, California. Her family returned to Dawson County shortly afterwards. She was married about 1941 to Elton Lee
Gossett . In 1985 they removed to
Brady, Texas where he died soon after.
Children born to Elton Lee Gossett and Margaret DeMelba Cox Gossett
include:
Margaret Lee
Gossett born December 14, 1943
Ronnie Keith
Gossett born December 17, 1946
Elton Lee
Gossett, Jr. born February 26,
1953
Samuel David
Gossett born June 22, 1956
Margaret Lee Gossett , daughter of Elton Lee Gossett and Margaret DeMelba Cox Gossett , was born
December 14, 1943. She was married
about 1960 to Wayland McCulloch . In
1987 they continued to live in Seminole.
Children born to them include:
Greg McCulloch born in 1962
Shannon McCulloch born in 1965
Greg McCulloch , son of Wayland McCulloch and Margaret Lee Gossett McCulloch , was
born in Seminole in 1962. In 1985 he
lived in Brownfield, Texas.
Shannon McCulloch , daughter of Wayland McCulloch and Margaret
Lee Gossett McCulloch , was born in Seminole in 1965. In 1985 she was a student at Texas Tech University.
James Alvia Cox, Jr. , son of James Alvia Cox and Mary Margaret "Maggie" Drennan
Cox , was born in Dawson County December 1, 1925. He was married about 1946 to Josephine Rachel "Bill"
Carter
He became an oil products distributor in Bridgeport, Texas. In 1983 they lived in Decatur, Texas. Following a divorce he removed to Runaway
Bay, Texas.
Children born to James Alvia Cox, Jr. and Josephine Rachel "Bill" Carter Cox, include:
Alvia Cox born about 1948
Patsy Jean Cox born about 1950
Cary Cox born
about 1953
Alvia Cox son of James Alvia Cox, Jr. and Josephine Rachel
"Bill" Carter Cox, was born about 1948.
Patsy Jean Cox , daughter of James Alvia Cox, Jr. and Josephine Rachel "Bill"
Carter Cox , was born about 1950. She
was married about 1969, husband's name Craig.
Cary Cox son of James Alvia Cox, Jr. and Josephine Rachel
"Bill" Carter Cox, was born about 1953.
Billie Kasteen Shipley, daughter of Calvin Shipley and Mary Margaret
"Maggie" Drennan Cox Shipley, was born June 2,1933 at Lamesa. She was married about 1952 to Thomas Ray
.Later she was remarried to Glenn Sullivan .
Her third marriage was to Olen Locker L1/1.1). In 1987 they lived at Brady.
Children born to Thomas Ray
and Billie Kasteen Shipley Ray
include:
Bill Ray born about 1955
Gary Don Ray born about 1958
Jerry Mack Shipley, son of Calvin Shipley Mary Margaret
"Maggie" Drennan Cox Shipley, was born October 10, 1934 in
Lamesa. He was married about 1955 to
Anita Joyce Kaker .
Children born to them include:
Mike Shipley
born about 1957
Debbie Shipley born about 1959
Brenda Shipley born
about 1962
Gary Paul Shipley son of Calvin Shipley Mary Margaret
"Maggie" Drennan Cox Shipley, was born October 12, 1938 in
Lamesa. He was married about 1959 to
Glenda Burnett.
Children born to them include:
Shelly Shipley born about 1961
Sherry Shipley born
about 1964
Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox, daughter of James Madison Cox
and Amanda Lucinda "Cindy" McCall Cox , was born December 24, 1900 in
Williamson County. Her family removed to Nolan County in 1901, back to
Williamson County in 1905, to Albany in 1906, to Young County in 1908, to
Round Timbers in 1909, to Altus, Oklahoma in 1911, to Throckmorton County in
1912 and to Weed, New Mexico in 1915.
She was married there in Cloudcroft August 20, 1919 to Thomas Calvin
Drennan. He was a brother to Mary
Margaret "Maggie" Drennan and a son of Thomas Braxton
"Brack" Drennan and Mary Ann Britt Drennan, born August 19, 1899.
They were third cousins, once-removed, but were not aware of the
relationship until Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan began to research
the family history about 1958.
In 1920 Thomas Calvin Drennan moved his family to Stonewall
County, Texas where he operated a farm.
In the fall of 1925 they moved to Dawson County where he continued
farming. In 1955 they moved to Lubbock
where he was employed by JOT, Inc, owned by his nephew Stanley Olgee
"Jot" Gowen.
Later they lived in Denton, where his son-in-law Charles Edwin
"Doc" Davis operated a Chevrolet dealership. Following this period they lived in Ft.
Worth and Winnsboro, Texas where they operated a stock farm with their son
Thelbert Roy "Jack" Drennan.
In 1977 they retired and returned to Aspermont, Texas purchasing a home
from Ella Rash Parker, a nurse who was later to become their daughter-in-law. In November 1987 Mary Alnora
"Nora" Cox Drennan lived in Gibson Memorial Home there. Thomas Calvin Drennan died in Aspermont in
1992 and was buried in Aspermont Cemetery.
Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan died February 9, 1996 at age 95
and was buried beside her husband.
Children born to Thomas Calvin Drennan and Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan include:
Thelbert Roy
"Jack" Drennan born
June 20, 1920
Joyce Arlene
Drennan born January
4, 1922
Ora Aladine
"Deanie" Drennan born
December 13, 1923
Calvin Osborn
"Ozzie" Drennan born
January 2, 1926
Thelbert Roy "Jack" Drennan, son of Thomas Calvin
Drennan and Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan, was born June 20, 1920 at
Weed. He was married December 24, 1943
at Lamesa to Bernadine Marie "Jean" Ten Cate Taylor, daughter of
Henry Ten Cate and Helena Jantina Scaap Ten Cate. She was a widow with one child, Patricia Ann Taylor. They were divorced about 1946, and he moved
to Ft. Worth to affiliate with the fire department. Bernadine Marie "Jean" Ten Cate Taylor Drennan died in Los Angeles in 1970.
He retired from the department in 1977 as a captain. He maintained his home on his farm at
Winnsboro with his parents until 1979 when he removed to Aspermont. He was remarried there July 17, 1979 to Mrs.
Ella Rash Parker .
Children born to Thelbert Roy "Jack" Drennan and Bernardine Marie "Jean" Ten
Cate Taylor Drennan include:
Patricia Ann Taylor Drennan born September 7, 1941
Teri Rae Drennan
born December 22, 1944
Patricia Ann Taylor Drennan , daughter of Jean Ten Cate Taylor ,
was born September 7, 1941 in Los Angeles and was adopted by Thelbert Roy
"Jack" Drennan after his
marriage to her mother. In 1983 she was
employed on a horse farm in Wisconsin, and in 1987 she lived near San Francisco
following a fourth divorce.
Teri Rae Drennan, daughter of Thelbert Roy "Jack"
Drennan and Jean Ten Cate Taylor Drennan, was born in Lamesa December 22,
1944. She was married about 1964 to
Carl Buckley Mahaney. In 1970 they
lived at Denton where they owned a farm and a shoe store. Later they were divorced. After receiving a
Ph.D in education she began teaching.
In 1983 she was teaching in Anchorage, Alaska.
Joyce Arlene Drennan , daughter of Thomas Calvin Drennan and Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan
, was born January 4, 1922 in Stonewall County. Later her parents moved to Dawson County where she grew up and
was graduated from high school in 1939.
She was married in 1945 in Lamesa to Carl Hugh Weaks . Later the couple was divorced, and she was
remarried in Lamesa June 17, 1955 to Audie Lee Richey , son of Hurley Lee
Richey and Alice Bradford Richey . In
1970 they lived on a farm near Winnsboro, and she was employed by General Telephone
Company in Sulphur Springs, Texas. In
1983 they removed to Aspermont, Texas.
One daughter was born to Carl Hugh Weaks and Joyce Arlene Drennan Weaks :
Carla Joyce
Weaks born March 11, 1946
Carla Joyce Weaks , daughter of Carl Hugh Weaks and Joyce Arlene Drennan Weaks , was born
March 11, 1946 in Lamesa. She was
married January 27, 1967 to Stanley Stafford
in Lubbock. In 1970 they lived
in Houston. In 1983 they lived in
Sulphur Springs where he was employed by Dewitt Trucking Company, and she was
a nurse.
Children born to them include:
Tonya Michelle
Stafford born September 30, 1968
Tonya Michelle Stafford, daughter of Stanley Stafford and Carla Joyce Weaks Stafford, was born in
Lubbock September 30, 1968.
Ora Aladine "Deanie" Drennan, daughter of Thomas
Calvin Drennan and Mary Alnora
"Nora" Cox Drennan , was born December 13, 1923 in Stonewall
County. Her parents removed to Dawson
County about 1925 where she attended school and was graduated from high
school. Following graduation she was employed
by General Telephone Company there and in a short time became chief operator.
She was married about 1946 to Bill Harrington in Lamesa.
Later the couple was divorced, and she was remarried December 11, 1949
to Charles Edwin "Doc" Davis
who was employed by an automobile dealership there. Later the couple removed to Lubbock where
they lived in June 1987.
Two children were adopted by Charles Edwin "Doc"
Davis and Ora Aladine "Deanie"
Drennan Harrington Davis
Charles David
Davis born June 14, 1963
Tommie Ross
Davis born May 21, 1966
Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan , son of Thomas Calvin
Drennan and Mary Alnora
"Nora" Cox Drennan , was born January 2, 1926 in Dawson County.
Following graduation from high school there he was married about 1946 to Netha
Arlene Denson . Later the couple was
divorced, and he was remarried to Mrs. Charlotte Fogerson who was born
December 28, 1927 in Canyon, Texas. In
1987 they lived in Hobbs, New Mexico where they owned Drennan's Heating &
Plumbing Company.
Children born to Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan and Netha Arlene Denson Drennan include:
Netha Diane
Drennan born July 3, 1947
Teresa Nanette
Drennan born July 3, 1948
Children born to Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan and Charlotte Fogerson Drennan include:
Brett Fogerson
Drennan born May 16, 1951
Kathleen Ann
Drennan born June 7, 1959
Netha Diane Drennan , daughter of Calvin Osborn
"Ozzie" Drennan and Netha
Arlene Denson Drennan was born July 3,
1947 in Lamesa. She was married about
1967 to Willard Ware at Sundown, Texas.
Teresa Nanette Drennan , daughter of Calvin Osborn
"Ozzie" Drennan and Netha
Arlene Denson Drennan , was born July 3, 1948 at Lamesa. She was married about 1966 to Larry Phillips in Odessa.
Children born to them include:
Cary Todd
Phillips born December 22,
1967
Brett Fogerson Drennan , son of Charlotte Fogerson Drennan, was
born May 16, 1951. He was adopted by
Calvin Osborn "Ozzie" Drennan after their marriage.
Kathleen Ann Drennan , daughter of Calvin Osborn
"Ozzie" Drennan
and Charlotte Fogerson
Drennan, was born June 7, 1959 in Hobbs.
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