Kathy Burch:  

Life After graduating from Okmulgee High, I played basketball at Connors State in Warner, OK. After graduation from there, I moved to Duncan and went to work for Halliburton. Hard to believe that was over 25 years ago!!! I married Robert Black from Duncan in 1983. He also worked at Halliburton. He passed away in 1990 and I have been single since. I still work at Halliburton, I started out in the Chemical Laboratory, and 3 years ago transfered to Project Controls. In this department I setup and maintained all of the projects for the chemical divisions for both Duncan and Houston Baroid. Late September of 2005 I changed jobs and I am now the Project Manager for the Chemical division in Duncan. It's a very hectic and challenging job. I had started getting interested in pedigree cats in 1989 and after Robert died, I got into them full time. I bred, showed, put on cat shows, and worked many of them in this area. After showing for about 10 years, I thought it would be fun to be a judge. A good friend of mine also had this idea, so we egged each other on. Just this October (2005) I was advanced to Allbreed status, which i...Expand for more