David McGee:  

CLASS OF 1970
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Mesquite, TX

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After high school, I married my high school sweetheart, Debra Wilson from North Mesquite High School. I worked my way through college as a Commercial Teller night supervisor at First National Bank in Dallas. I graduated from University of North Texas with a BS in Elementary Education. I moved to Orange, Texas, to be a fifth grade teacher. I worked on my MEd. in Guidance and Counseling at Lamar University in Beaumont while I taught. I continued my education after my master's degree completing another 54 hours of post graduate work. I worked as a middle school and elementary school counselor in Orange. We then moved to Jacksboro where I was the first elementary school counselor for that district. I moved from Jacksboro to Coppell, Texas, to be an elementary school counselor. After working in education for 29 years, I retired in 2006. I was married to Debbie for 24 years. She decided to divorce me in 1995. It was quite a blow to me and I still have a hard time dealing with the issues from our marriage, during the divorce process and after the divorce was final. I had tried as hard as I could to be the best husband I could. We have 4 great sons, Michael, Jeffrey, Shon, and Stephen. After the divorce, I was granted full custody of the boys. I love my sons with all my heart. I couldn't have made it to this point in my life without them. Jeffrey and Shon were in the US Army, Jeffrey at Ft. Hood, and Shon stationed in Germany. Jeffrey, Shon and Stephen are married. Michael has been married three times and has 1 son and 3 daughters. Shon was divorced in 2013 and re-married in August of 2013. He has 2 boys and one girl from his first marriage and he has 2 step sons and 1 step daughter from his second marriage. Stephen and his wife, Nicole, and their beautiful son, Grayson live in Garland. Jeffrey and his wife, Vicki, do not have children and are going through a divorce. Shon and Jeffrey are now prison guards in Tennessee Colony, Texas. Michael works as security for a construction company. Stephen is a technician for a major cable company. After my divorce, I realized that my life was not what it should have been and that I had never really allowed myself to be happy. I had always tried to be what other people wanted me to be. I tried to make everyone around me happy instead of thinking of my own happiness. I realized that I was not bi-sexual as I had always thought, even though I had never acted on it during my marriage, but instead I came to the realization that I am gay. My sons were a fantastic help in getting me to accept who I was, who I am, and what I needed to do to be happy. I will be grateful to them for eternity. They have been my greatest support. They accept my husband as their "step-dad". I had moved to San Luis Potosi, Mexico, which is in the geographical center of Mexico, north of Mexico City to live with my partner, Aldo. He finally was able to get a job here in Dallas as a teacher. We bought a townhome together near Northpark in September, 2012, after my mother passed away. We were married on July 16, 2013 in Leon, Iowa after being together for 11 years. I would travel back and forth to Mesquite where my mother still lived. I lived with her when I was in the US, in the house we lived in since 1965. My dad passed away. My older brother, Richard, lives in Ft. Stockton, Texas, and...Expand for more
my younger brother, Thomas, lives in Albuqurque, New Mexico where he is an Episcopal priest. I love my grandchildren and step-grandchildren very much, although I only get to see 2 of my grandchildren very often. I haven't kept up with anyone since high school. I was never very outgoing and definitely shy. I was good at smiling and listening. I wanted close friends, but I was too insecure with myself to try to have many close friendships. I am still shy and still quiet and since I was trained in counseling, I am considered a great listener. My partner, Aldo, is a trained psychologist and is 25 years younger than I am. He was an English teacher in San Luis Potosi, Mexico which is his hometown. It is very hard for an honest, hard working Mexican to gain entry into the US without getting married to an American woman. He refuses to go to the US illegally and I wouldn't be with him if he were the kind of person that would do it. That's why I left the US and moved to Mexico. It was a very hard decision to leave my sons and their families behind in Texas. I missed them so much on a day to day basis. I have learned that I had to let them be adults on their own and let them lead their own lives and make their own decisions. They've made mistakes, but they are still great men and I'm extremely proud to be their father. While I was at Mesquite High School, I took Latin as my foreign language. In college I studied linguistics. Since I don't speak much Spanish, I'm thankful for my Latin to help me decipher the written word in Mexico. San Luis Potosi is not a tourist mecca and there are few Americans living there, although there are many people there that have lived in the US, whether legally or illegally. It is none of my business, although I am not a supporter of illegal immigrants entering the US. I lived in Mexico on a visa that prohibited me from working, so until my partner was allowed to go to the US, I lived my life there in retirement. The Immigration and Naturalization Service of the US Government does not accept partnerships like I have with my partner even in states that accept same sex couples in civil unions or gay marriages. I spent most of my time there working on our house that burned in September of 2007 or in the miniscule yard that houses there have. With no insurance on our possessions and the owners of the house living illegally in the US in Nevada, we had to do the work cleaning and repairing the house and doing without the possessions. We also had to pay the entire cost of the repairs. But we really loved the neighborhood we lived in. Although we were the only couple of our kind in that area, we are warmly accepted by our neighbors. I just wished some of them could have spoken English. Life got very quiet for me. Thank goodness Walmart has many stores there in SLP and there was a mall close by! I spend most of my time alone, but I'm happy being able to be with someone that loves me for who I am and is honest and faithful to me. I never really knew just how happy a relationship could be when someone loves me unconditionally and considers my needs and my happiness. I'd really like to hear from people that I went to Mesquite High School with. I doubt there are many that remember me, but I'd still like to hear from anyone. My life has not been an exciting one, but it has been eventful.
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