Phyllis McLemore:
CLASS OF 1971
East Central High SchoolClass of 1971
Tulsa, OK
Tulsa Community CollegeClass of 2009
Tulsa, OK
Tulsa Junior CollegeClass of 1975
Tulsa, OK
Phyllis's Story
Here’s almost 50 years in a nutshell:
I married Lewis McLemore in December of 1971. We moved to Seattle, Washington, during our third year of marriage and lived there almost 3 years before moving to Muskogee, Oklahoma, where Lewis became a firefighter and we started our family. We raised three sons, and homeschooled for 14 years.
In 1990 I began working in political campaigns and became Organizational Director of the Tom Coburn for Congress campaign in 1994 when he ran for his first term. I taught in home school coops in the Tulsa area for about 11 years. Lewis retired in the spring of 2003 after 25 years of service with the fire department and became a supervisor at the Port of Muskogee.
In 2007 I enrolled at TCC and got my Associate’s in journalism in 2009. Continuing on to OSU-Stillwater, in 2011 I received a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in journalism and broadcasting and a minor in leadership from the education college. I was in the Honors College and graduated summa cum laude with department...Expand for more
al honors. It was very satisfying for me to achieve this as a nontraditional student.
While at OSU, I had the opportunity to serve twice in Belize, and I won a study abroad scholarship to study Spanish in Puebla, Mexico.
Unfortunately, in 2011 my marriage ended, so I moved to Puebla where I taught English as a foreign language for almost two years in a state university there. When my mother was diagnosed with cancer in 2013, I bought a house in Tulsa and moved back to help care for her and my dad until they passed in 2014 and 2015 respectfully.
Two of my sons are now married and have given me seven granddaughters. My oldest son is single. So far, so am I, and there aren’t any prospects in sight.
Since spring of 2016, I’ve been a volunteer coordinator for a hospice company and work out of offices in Tulsa, Bartlesville, Grove, Pryor, and Tahlequah. I’m looking forward to retirement, but I don’t know when that will happen.
You can reach me through Facebook or send an email: phyllismclemore at yahoo dot com.
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