Mark Fletcher:
CLASS OF 1974
McKinley High SchoolClass of 1974
Canton, OH
Fairmount Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Canton, OH
Thorn Elementary SchoolClass of 1967
Princeton, WV
Youtz Elementary SchoolClass of 1967
Canton, OH
Pleasant View Elementary SchoolClass of 1966
Canton, OH
Mark's Story
Life
Well, lets see.....after McKinley in 1974, I went to Mount Union College, I graduated with a geology degree in 1978. From then, I worked in the oil and gas service industry in the East Texas, North Louisiana area for 3 years. I met my wife Debbie, in Shreveport, La. in 1979 and we married in 1980. She is from Louisiana and has a large family there, and in Arkansas. We chose not to have kids, we liked our life the way it was. Debbie is a neo-natal (premature babies) nurse practitioner, so she sees a lot of babies.
In 1981, I started with a small oil & gas company in Shreveport, I did okay for several years, had some wells drilled with success. I worked there until the oil bust in 1990. There was nothing for me to do in my field, and nothing much else in Shreveport, so I took an environmental consulting job in Dallas TX in 1990 and moved to Plano, TX (a suburb) in 1991. It was a lousy career, and I tried several times to get out of it. I finally succeeded in 2006 and got back in the oil and gas business.
Plano is a nice town, it had a population of 125,000 when we moved here, now wi...Expand for more
th all the growth, it is up to 250,000. There are two malls, plenty of shopping, and Dallas is only 15 miles, for museums, events, etc. The area is getting too big, and hopefully we will semi-retire in 10 years and move to a smaller town.
I used to go to Canton Ohio regularly, till my mom passed away in 1988. I don't get up there much. We did visit Labor Day, 2006, it sure has changed, not much for the good. No more Mellet Mall, a lot of the downtown buildings has been leveled???? I have lost touch with the friends I went to school with, or lived in my neighborhood, but I am trying to contact some of them. I enjoyed growing up in Canton, and consider myself lucky to have gone to a great high school and college with great classmates.
I always thought I would return to Canton, at least that is what I planned on. But life happens. I would like to return to the Canton I grew up with in the 1960s-1970s, but it is long gone. They say you spend half your life trying to get away from your home, and the other half trying to return. That is true, until you realized that it is not there anymore.
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