Ronald Cox:  

Life and times, well I got out of School and went to work in the road construction business as a matter of fact if you have ever driven over the elevated section of Highway 75 from I 30 to Ross Avenue in Downtown Dallas you have driven on some of the bridge work that I built. I worked there with my grandfather and a crew of men building concrete forms and setting them then tying rebar steel and pouring concrete and then finishing and wrecking off the forms then starting the process all over again. I married a girl from Trinidad Texas shortly there after and we were married for 4 years and had a baby girl that died at birth she is buried in Trinidad Texas next to her Grandmother after the baby died we decided that we had made a mistake and married far to young and decided to divorce and move on with both our lives. I decided that I wanted to do some other kind of work and got started in the plumbing business and did that for about 16 years and got my master plumbers license and worked at that until the bottowm fell out of the building industry and I nearly went broke, in the mean time I was single for about 2 years after the divorce and I met a girl from Irving Texas and we got married in 1977 and have been married now for 32 years. I have 2 children the girl was born first when I was 29 years old and the boy came along 4 years later. They are both grown and my daughter is married. She went to school and got her M.A. and is a physicians assistant. My son is still going to college at UT Arlington and is going to be a History teacher and coach when he graduates next May. I have 4 grandchildren already 2 girls and 2 boys and I love them dearly but I am glad they are not mine to have on a 24/7 basis. Along the way I dropped out of the plumbing business and got into heavy commercial hvac and went to work on the Comanche Peak Nuclear Electric generation plant in Glen Rose Texas, I worked there until the re-fit on unit one was complete and then I got laid off and went on unemployment for about a year and working a few cash handy man jobs to make ends meet while looking for work. I finally got hired on with a company in Grand Prairie Texas called H.A.C. it was a FAA aircraft repair station directly next door to the old Dallas Naval Air Station. I started out as a mechanic apprentice and worked my way up the ladder over a 12 and a 1/2 year period and made Composite flight controls Shop Manager with 30 other mechanics in my shop. We worked with some exotic materials such as Kevlar, Graphite and Fiberglass and metals such as Titanium and all grades of Aluminum and Stainless Steel. I was responsible for scheduling the work so that the parts received and then torn down and rebuilt would be ready to ship according to the customer time line requirements. I was also the liason between all other departments to make sure the work flow was not interupted. I worked with the engineers,quality control,etchline layup and bonding and paint shops to make sure the proper materials were used on each part and then ...Expand for more