James Kirkpatrick:  

Life Well, hello to all. Let's see...Made it through high school, met a very few people I still know and maintain contact. My parents then moved to Bandera and I was off to college at Angelo State in west Texas and an interesting and eventful first year was had. Second and remaining years I went to Sam Houston State. Majored in Law Enforcement and have done nothing in that line of work since graduation in Fall 1983. Was married right out of college, Jerri Lind and I had a fine son named David. Our marriage didn't last, though, too young I suppose. I was married again some years later to a woman that quickly decided she liked the maintenance man better and asked for a divorce. I hadn't been moved out for a week and he moved right in. They remained together for some years till he passed in a traffic accident and she contracted cancer and passed in early 2009. Then met a wonderful lady named Dianna Joyce and fell in love and we married for 11 years of happy, growing, faith-filled marriage. She has a daughter by a previous marriage that is a great lady that is teaching in Ft Worth now. On our anniversary of the 11th year we were in an auto wreck and I lost her, but heaven gained an angelic soul. I miss her terribly, but know she is happier than I can possibly imagine. Along the way I've had alot of different jobs, from carpenter to AC installation, life insurance sales to fire alarm sales, post hole digging to retail stores. Most of the time I worked in the corrugator industry, we made corrugated fiber board, (card board sheets,) sold them to box companies that converted them into boxes for pizza, tv's, who knows what. Stressful production environment eventually got to me, decided I didn't ne...Expand for more