Cortelle Evelyn Sloss, daughter of Harry Byers Sloss and Laura Belle Dunning, was born in the small town of Unity in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Grove City, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where she attended school until a junior in high school. Because of an illness with her father, they moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, which was a big event at that time in the life and from living in a small Pennsylvania town. Her school was finished in Colorado Springs.
Her early ambition was to be a nurse, but circumstances changed to a business career. Before marrying a George Parten and moving to Texas she was a medical stenographer, taking doctors' notes in clinics, at bedsides, and in operating rooms, in the University of Colorado Medical School Hospital In Denver, "a most interesting job ", she says. Services were available to all doctors serving in the hospital, and when not thus occupied, she served as Asst. Secretary to Major Bocock, then Superintendent of the hospital, who in previous years had served with the U.S. Army in the sanitation project of the Panama Canal Zone.
Divorced after ten years of marriage and living in various places throughout Texas, she came to Corpus Christi where she raised her two boys on her own. She worked for 5 years with the Shore Line U.S.O. and then for 5 years with the YMCA, both very interesting jobs working with and meeting many fine Corpus Christians. One uncertain time, her youngest son contracted polio and Cortelle nursed him back to perfect health. She would latter entered into the oil business for many years with Clymore Petroleum Corp. She was the Treasurer of the company and did numerous other duties along with that position.
When Cortelle retired, her two sons were grown with successful careers and families; she traveled the world on group trips with her friends. She was an avid Bridge and Canasta player. She lived as an independent single woman for most of her adult life. She was a proud grandmother of four grandsons and one granddaughter. In her waning years, she was convinced to leave Corpus Christi, her home for over fifty years, and move to Collin County, Texas to be near her eldest son and his family.
Likes: To cook, make own clothes, travel, and work with people.
Dislikes: Domineering people, dishonesty, untidiness.
She was a sweet, charming, quiet, and congenial person.
Her early ambition was to be a nurse, but circumstances changed to a business career. Before marrying a George Parten and moving to Texas she was a medical stenographer, taking doctors' notes in clinics, at bedsides, and in operating rooms, in the University of Colorado Medical School Hospital In Denver, "a most interesting job ", she says. Services were available to all doctors serving in the hospital, and when not thus occupied, she served as Asst. Secretary to Major Bocock, then Superintendent of the hospital, who in previous years had served with the U.S. Army in the sanitation project of the Panama Canal Zone.
Divorced after ten years of marriage and living in various places throughout Texas, she came to Corpus Christi where she raised her two boys on her own. She worked for 5 years with the Shore Line U.S.O. and then for 5 years with the YMCA, both very interesting jobs working with and meeting many fine Corpus Christians. One uncertain time, her youngest son contracted polio and Cortelle nursed him back to perfect health. She would latter entered into the oil business for many years with Clymore Petroleum Corp. She was the Treasurer of the company and did numerous other duties along with that position.
When Cortelle retired, her two sons were grown with successful careers and families; she traveled the world on group trips with her friends. She was an avid Bridge and Canasta player. She lived as an independent single woman for most of her adult life. She was a proud grandmother of four grandsons and one granddaughter. In her waning years, she was convinced to leave Corpus Christi, her home for over fifty years, and move to Collin County, Texas to be near her eldest son and his family.
Likes: To cook, make own clothes, travel, and work with people.
Dislikes: Domineering people, dishonesty, untidiness.
She was a sweet, charming, quiet, and congenial person.
Cortelle Evelyn Sloss, daughter of Harry Byers Sloss and Laura Belle Dunning, was born in the small town of Unity in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Grove City, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where she attended school until a junior in high school. Because of an illness with her father, they moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado, which was a big event at that time in the life and from living in a small Pennsylvania town. Her school was finished in Colorado Springs.
Her early ambition was to be a nurse, but circumstances changed to a business career. Before marrying a George Parten and moving to Texas she was a medical stenographer, taking doctors' notes in clinics, at bedsides, and in operating rooms, in the University of Colorado Medical School Hospital In Denver, "a most interesting job ", she says. Services were available to all doctors serving in the hospital, and when not thus occupied, she served as Asst. Secretary to Major Bocock, then Superintendent of the hospital, who in previous years had served with the U.S. Army in the sanitation project of the Panama Canal Zone.
Divorced after ten years of marriage and living in various places throughout Texas, she came to Corpus Christi where she raised her two boys on her own. She worked for 5 years with the Shore Line U.S.O. and then for 5 years with the YMCA, both very interesting jobs working with and meeting many fine Corpus Christians. One uncertain time, her youngest son contracted polio and Cortelle nursed him back to perfect health. She would latter entered into the oil business for many years with Clymore Petroleum Corp. She was the Treasurer of the company and did numerous other duties along with that position.
When Cortelle retired, her two sons were grown with successful careers and families; she traveled the world on group trips with her friends. She was an avid Bridge and Canasta player. She lived as an independent single woman for most of her adult life. She was a proud grandmother of four grandsons and one granddaughter. In her waning years, she was convinced to leave Corpus Christi, her home for over fifty years, and move to Collin County, Texas to be near her eldest son and his family.
Likes: To cook, make own clothes, travel, and work with people.
Dislikes: Domineering people, dishonesty, untidiness.
She was a sweet, charming, quiet, and congenial person.
Her early ambition was to be a nurse, but circumstances changed to a business career. Before marrying a George Parten and moving to Texas she was a medical stenographer, taking doctors' notes in clinics, at bedsides, and in operating rooms, in the University of Colorado Medical School Hospital In Denver, "a most interesting job ", she says. Services were available to all doctors serving in the hospital, and when not thus occupied, she served as Asst. Secretary to Major Bocock, then Superintendent of the hospital, who in previous years had served with the U.S. Army in the sanitation project of the Panama Canal Zone.
Divorced after ten years of marriage and living in various places throughout Texas, she came to Corpus Christi where she raised her two boys on her own. She worked for 5 years with the Shore Line U.S.O. and then for 5 years with the YMCA, both very interesting jobs working with and meeting many fine Corpus Christians. One uncertain time, her youngest son contracted polio and Cortelle nursed him back to perfect health. She would latter entered into the oil business for many years with Clymore Petroleum Corp. She was the Treasurer of the company and did numerous other duties along with that position.
When Cortelle retired, her two sons were grown with successful careers and families; she traveled the world on group trips with her friends. She was an avid Bridge and Canasta player. She lived as an independent single woman for most of her adult life. She was a proud grandmother of four grandsons and one granddaughter. In her waning years, she was convinced to leave Corpus Christi, her home for over fifty years, and move to Collin County, Texas to be near her eldest son and his family.
Likes: To cook, make own clothes, travel, and work with people.
Dislikes: Domineering people, dishonesty, untidiness.
She was a sweet, charming, quiet, and congenial person.
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