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Otha Farmer

After graduation I enlisted in the Air Force in September 1958 for four years. Married while I was in the Air Force to a woman that was also in the Air force. We had one child. Divorced after almost twenty years. Discharged from the Air Force, in 1962 and went to work for Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation in Houston. Their offices were downtown at that time. Worked there until I retired in 1989. Had to retire, but with a very nice pension plan and benefits. We were bought out and everybody fifty and over fifty had to retire. Best thing that could have happened to me.

    I remarried in 1982 to a school teacher and lived in LaPorte for twelve years. She went back to school and got a law degree and we opened a law practice in Pasadena in 1990. After twelve years of marriage we separated in November 1994 and I moved from Houston to a small farm we had south of Athens, Texas in Henderson County about eighty mile south east of Dallas. The farm has been in the family since 1948.

    I have been working on This Old House that was built in the early forties. My son and I started rewiring the house in 1984 and I am still working on This Old House. I did not want to leave Houston. I like Houston. Houston was my home for many years, but it is not anymore. I miss Channel 2, Doug Johnson and Ron Stone. Not necessarily in that order. We lived on the farm until 1951, when we moved to Odessa.

    Then, in September 1952 we moved to Houston just in time for us, my sister and I, Iva Farmer Gross, to start school. She was two years behind me and graduated from Reagan in 1959. She has terminal cancer and does not have long to live. She lives in Spring.

I have one son who lives in Tomball..

I remarried in 1996. Her name is Barbara. She has one son who lives in Conroe. My wife had lived in the Houston, Seabrook, Texas City area from 1970 and the last place she lived was in some apartments off 1960. My sister lived in the same apartments. They met one day while walking their dogs in 1992. They had not seen each other in years. I had not seen Barbara since we went to elementary school. She lost her job in 1993 and in June of 1994, she moved back to their farm before I did. I moved back to the farm in October of 1994, and we started seeing each other. She has heart related problems that started in 1999. Several times since then when she has been in the hospital I thought she was not going to live. I am thankful to God that she is still with me. God has been good to us.

    In the spring of 1997, I started substituting at the Cross Roads Independent School
District where my sister, Barbara, and I had attended when we lived there from 1948 to 1951.

    In the fall of 1997, I started working with Special Ed. students. After five years I was able to retire, which I did on June 1, 2002. I bought my military time and this gave me nine years toward my retirement. I was also drawing social security, along with my pension, so I could retire. I WAS BORN TO RETIRE.

    I never knew what I wanted to do with my life until I was abut 35 years old. I would have liked to have been a commercial airline pilot. It is too late at that age unless you are a pilot and have 4,000 hours and a lot of luck. I met a pilot that is my age now and did get a jog flying as a commercial pilot when he was in his mid thirties. However, he was laid off in a year or so.

    I went to college in the 60s, 80s, & 90s and finally got my associates degree in 1996. I don’t like to rush into anything. I have wanted to fly for a long time. So, in 2003, I started taking flying lessons and in May 2005, I got my private pilot’s license. I have 240 hours now. I read Doug Johnson’s profile where he built and crashed his own airplane.

I sure am glad I took typing at Reagan so I could send this profile.

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