Frankie Jim Wilcox-Bockman:
CLASS OF 1951
Freer High SchoolClass of 1951
Freer, TX
Frankie Jim's Story
Frankie Jim born in Laredo; raised in Freer, Texas. Married, 4 children and 2 grandchildren. Schools include Freer Schools, Texas A&I , USC & SWTSU. Worked at NASA/JSC in Clear Lake (Houston) and was Secretary to Astronaut US Navy CDR M. Scott Carpenter; worked for Chief of Naval Aviation Safety at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station; worked for US Army at Ft.Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX; worked 3 years for USAF at Johnson Air Base, Irumagawa, Japan and 3 years at Fuchu Air Station, Tokyo, Japan; March AFB, Riverside, California; James Connally AB, Waco, TX; Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, TX; Randolph AFB,San Antonio, TX. Owned retail jewelry business for 12 years in New Braunfels, TX. John Wm and I lived on the Kayenta, Arizona Navajo Indian Reservation for over about 2 years in northeast Arizona
I sang all my life at church, school functions, weddings, church choirs, directed church choirs in Japan and north Texas. I sang in supper clubs in Houston. I quit singing when I developed an "ole lady's voice" and I truly miss the heck out of singing! I also loved playing the trumpet and gave trumpet lessons in Japan.
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Mother: Grace Estelle Jarrott-Wilcox(Freer HS Math Teacher); Step-Father: H.O. "Dutch" Wilcox (Humble Oil);
Grandmother: Grace Posey-Jarrott (Freer First Grade Teacher); I was named for my 2 Uncles - Frank and Jim Jarrott and also Great-GrandFather - Jim Posey of Teague, Texas.
I married John Wm Bockman (a pilot) on 08 September 1984; we retired several years and now work harder than we have ever worked taking care of our farm with goats, donkeys, guinea hens, English Orpington and Araucana Chickens, 5 cats and 5 dogs (1 Red-Gold Female Golden Retriever and 1 Cream Colored Female Golden Retriever; 1 Gorgeous Great Pyrenees livestock guard dog (LGD) and 2 Gorgeous Great Pyrenees/Anatolian Mixes LGDS). We LOVE the peaceful, beautiful, serenity of country life with all our animals! We are Animal Lovers!
I love GOD ALMIGHTY - MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, My Family, My Animals, My Country, and My Friends!! I am a free-thinking conservative!!
I will never forget Freer nor my memories of the loving, friendly people, and the protection surrounding all of us as we grew up in that wonderfully small South Texas town!!
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