Tommie Tuttleton:  

Life I graduated in 1959 and married a Paschal Grad. 58 (forgiven for that ) ha. We were happily married on April 1, 1961. Yep, it took because 45 1/2 yrs. later still happily married!! We have really spent two lives, the first 20 yrs. we had our 2 children, Kathy 1966 and Karl 1969. Don worked for IBM Corp. interupted by Viet Nam and the Army Reserve for 6 yrs. Then after 6 mo. boot camp etc. back to IBM for the next 18 yrs. We lived in Ft.W, Austin, Tx, and Lincoln, NE. Then in 1980 God called us into full time ministry in service to Him at 1st. Bapt. Church, Denham Springs, LA. (right outside Baton Rouge). Don now pastors a mission church soon to be in a building (hopefully - Katrina put a stop to building last year about this time). We have land that is prime and doubled in value right away as a new interstate exit off I-12 is going in now. God is good! We have been blessed with 3 grandsons all live in this area and I have been a dental asst. for the same dentist for 21 yrs. Trying to work myself out of a job as I am down to 2 days a week. I like to keep up with old friends, Sherry Wright Ferguson and I have been friends since the 5th/6th grade and I have a class pic at Sagamore Hill Elem with Sallie Bantz Coltharp and lots of others. Life has been very good to our family, bumps but no real life threatening things. We love the Lord and our family and life in general. Hope to be hearing about our 50th. Reunion sometime. School School was always fun for me. I went to the first semester of the 1st. grade in Hobart, Oka. My Dad was an oilfield worker and was drilling a well there and Mother, Susie and I lived in an apartment in a lady's home and spent 8 or 9 months there. Dad had a sever heart attack (he was 42 when I was born) and we had to come back to our home in FtW. I finished 1-6th grades at Sagamore Hill Elementary and loved school, ran track (relays we called it) and Robert Davis called me a few years ago and remembered I was the fastest girl in Sagamore Hill! Part of that running was from Doug Glidewell and W.J. Patrick who tried to kiss me!! Ha. I still have "love notes" he sent me in class. Also Larry Reed was my "boyfriend" when school came to an end and I have pictures of him and me holding hands on the school ground (big no, no) also Patsy Parmer and W.J. Patrick doing the same. (we must have taken each others pictures) "What fun" memories, Johnny Prigmore having ring worms, purple medicine and a white sock type hat! W.J. and some other boy telling us (girls) to look up the word "rape" in the dictionary that was in the middle of the table we were sitting at in English class (Mrs. Toman's class) and I still remember the definition - "Carried away by force" Edward Gardel giving me a soft ball and a hampster (he must have "loved"me a lot and had money!!) He asked me to go on the bus to LaGrave Field one saturday for a Ft. Worth Cats ball game. I can't believe my Mother let me go!! When we got there, there was no game being played so we caught the bus back to my house at 900 Benton St. We used to go "square dancing" at some rec. building at night and had fun dancing and holding hands in the "dark back seat of the car" OOh, what great memories Junior High was 1 year at the old school on Meadowbrook Dr.(Meadowbrook Elem.) My older brother and twin sisters born 1922 and 1924 went there!. Then 7th. and 8th. grade at the new building near there. I remember the fun we had there too, football teams, games, eating lemons to help you yell better??figure that out, buying big dill pickles to eat and going to the Gateway Theater on Lancaster Dr. on Saturdays. By then it cost 25 cents to get in. Sometime my Dad didn't have an extra quarter but mostly he did and I think I walked to the movie. I remember holding hands under the arm rest and when he was brave enough, Joe Lewis put his arm around me!! Then the manager who roamed the aisles spotlighted us and that was the end of that. I remember wearing his ID bracelet and a disk with his name on it!!. Writing more love notes and going "steady", then he dumped me for some other girl!! Broken heart but recovery. I remember the good looking social studies teacher, name eludes me, that was married to a Paschal High School senior! That made him more real and all the girls "loved" him.Slumber parties, dances in the gym, playing tennis and winning doubles championship with Sandy Kemp, going to Sagamore Hill Baptist church summer youth camp having such fun and making many friends. Then came Poly High School, I still sometimes have "school dreams" and the delima is always I can't remember my locker number or my schedule and don't know what class I'm to go to next. Then I get to be a Senior and realize I have forgotten to go to English class and won't graduate because I don't have enough credits!!Actually school was so much fun I didn't have any trouble with grades, made my first B in Algebra, never could get that stuff. My favorite teachers were Mr. James, homeroom and world history, and Mr. Norton, american history. Donald M. I believe his name was. Didn't date much in highschool, I really had to like a guy a lot to date - Sorta suffered with that when proms etc. came along. But I met Don (husband of 45 yrs) when I was a junior. I even have a group picture at the Poly/Paschal basketball game that we met afterwards. The pic is in "58 yrbook, and we are almost on the same row, just opposite schools College I was able to attend one...Expand for more