1. I was born in Hobart, Oklahoma and raised 9 miles west of there on my Grandpas farm, 2 miles north and 1 mile west of the water tower in Lone Wolf. 2. My grandpa, George Washington Bunch, homesteaded there in 1901. I was raised in the house 1/2 mile from him on the parcel of land he purchased from another homesteader who gave up the work. My dad did the farming for Grandpa and I learned to drive at a very early age, running the tractor which I could not even crank! 3. At about the age of 12, I was playing around on a one-way plow that my cousin was pulling with the Allis Chalmers tractor of Grandpas and got pulled under, cutting my left leg almost off (through the bone) just below the knee and breaking my right ankle. 4. One of the doctors who put me together at Hobart OK was a bone doctor who was, just after fixing me, called to Korea because of a bone disease in the fighting men there. 5. I starting walking again too soon and my left knee bent toward my right knee; went to crippled childrens hospital in Oklahoma City and my leg was re-set -- a fortunate happenstance because the silver screw in my knee was setting up infection and I would have lost my leg had it not been discovered an removed! 6. I could not play sports in school so I was in the glee club and sang bass in a quartet in contests in Oklahoma. I was also active in vo-ag and was president of our FFA club in my senior year. 7. Upon graduation, I worked different odd jobs and finally got a full-time job in Altus Oklahoma with the Altus Glass Co., working there for three years; tried a while at Oklahoma City but didnt do well with the union, went back to Lone Wolf and worked on a farm whose owner was also an insurance man and fertilizer dealer and was listed in whos who; I also did some part-time preaching until starting full-time in 1965.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:05:52 +0000
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