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CHERRIE GHOSTBEAR DEAN

I attended Hale from 9th grade til graduation.
At the end of my ninth grade year my mother
was diagnosed and underwent surgery for
brain cancer. This was before Chemotherapy.
She was only supposed to live for 24 hours,
but lived for two years a lot of that time
in a coma and died at home.

After graduating in 1963 I worked for a while
then attended OSU technical school in Okmulgee
taking Commercial Art. Upon finishing in 1968
I went to work for LTV Electrosystems in
Greenville, Texas.

I began as a drafting trainee they had realized
they could hire women, train them and pay us
a lot less. But I loved that job. Then I worked
for Lone Star Gas Company in Dallas, Texas.

Moving back to Tulsa I began working for Telex
Computer Products. They were suing IBM and
while I was on maternity leave they had a huge
layoff. Then I started at Dresser Engineering
in Tulsa for ten years, they designed and built
natural gas plants. When the oil industry in
Tulsa was going thru a recession I was laid off
and worked for C.E. Crest then started at Tulsa
District Corps of Engineers. I was in the first
group to be trained on their first CADD system.
I worked for the Engineering and Construction
Division for 28 years. I would have worked longer
but found a mole that was melanoma and after the
second surgery in 2010 I was put on a year of
Chemo. with very little stamina I retired.

My husband and myself have enjoyed garage sales,
and met some estate sale people and bought out
about 40 estate sales. We have a 12,400 sq ft.
warehouse and have filled it. My husband is younger
and a programmer for HP and is still working. I am
looking forward to him retiring also.

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