Fro-Back Friday Yep, I was too busy to write this yesterday on Throw-Back Thursday. Deal with it! It was 1965, and I was a college graduate, ready for the next great adventure: Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. I had never been to Texas. I packed my little Plymouth Valiant with my worldly possessions and departed North Carolina. I was going west, young man! Fort Worth was very good to me. At spring break of 1966, we crammed eight friends into that little Valiant and drove to Miami for Spring Break. In the summer of 1966, I was in the Bahamas with a mission team of seminary students. In the fall of 1966, Margery Rand enrolled in seminary. She was a school teacher from Winona, Minnesota. I think it took us every bit of ten minutes to fall in love. We were married on August 5, 1967 and honeymooned at the world’s fair, “Expo Sixty-Seven” in Montreal. On August 27, 1968, Margery gave me a baby boy named Phillip Gerald, born a Texan in Fort Worth. He returned to Texas after college and lives in Houston today with a beautiful family of four. In the fall of 1971, our family left Fort Worth for Tulsa, Oklahoma to serve full-time on a church staff at last. I brought along a Master of Divinity degree and Master of Religious Education degree. (It was said that I earned two degrees, and Margery gave me the third degree!) Margery brought along Timothy James, to be born in Tulsa on January 23, 1972. It was a cold, icy-snowy morning. The little Buckner family was launched! Yep. Fort Worth was very good to me.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:32:54 +0000
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