"BUCK" OR "PAT" AS I KNEW HIM WAS MY WIFES FATHER. LOTTIE BELLE WAS HER MOTHER. I MET HIM AFTER I MET HIS DAUGHTER DIXIE LEA. PAT WAS A TRADER, ESPECIALLY OF CARS AT THE TIME, 1957. HE TRADED FOR A 1940 PLYMOUTH TWO DOOR WHICH HAD BEEN SUGARED [CAUSES MOTOR TO FREEZE UP]. I HELPED HIM PULL THE HEAD AND PAN, REMOVE RODS AND PISTONS WHICH WE THEN BOILED CLEAN IN A 5 GALLON BUCKET OF SOAPY WATER. THEN WE PUT ALL BACK TOGETHER AND STARTED IT. AS WE SAT THERE ADMIRING OUR WORK THE MOTOR STOPPED RUNNING. OH NO PAT EXCLAIMED, I FORGOT TO DRAIN THE GAS TANK! IT HAD SUGARED ITSELF AGAIN. THIS HAPPENED OUT SOUTH OF ELFRIDA,AZ. ON THE OLD LANE PLACE WHERE THEY WERE LIVING AS CARETAKERS AT THE TIME. LANE HAD A HUGE RANCH[FARM] ABOUT HALF WAY TO BISBEE,AZ. AFTER DIXIE & I MARRIED THEY PULLED UP AND WENT BACK TO TEXAS [ODESSA] TO WORK ON A PULLING UNIT IN THE OILFIELD. AFTER HEARING THAT THE PAY WAS 1.40 AN HR. & YOU COULD GET LOTS OF OVERTIME ALSO, WELL ME & DIXIE DECIDED WE WOULD MOVE THERE TOO. ARRIVED JAN. 3RD 1959 & WENT TO WORK IN A COUPLE OF DAYS. I WORKED IN ALL THREE OF THE JOBS IN THE OIL FIELD BUSINESS. PULLING UNITS, ROUGHNECKING & COMMON LABORER. JAMES BRADLEY.
NOTE; PAT WAS A GAMBLER, BUT HE DID NOT GAMBLE HIS ETERNITY AWAY, HE HE ACCEPTED JESUS AS SAVIOUR BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY. JIM 4/14/15
NOTE; PAT WAS A GAMBLER, BUT HE DID NOT GAMBLE HIS ETERNITY AWAY, HE HE ACCEPTED JESUS AS SAVIOUR BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY. JIM 4/14/15
"BUCK" OR "PAT" AS I KNEW HIM WAS MY WIFES FATHER. LOTTIE BELLE WAS HER MOTHER. I MET HIM AFTER I MET HIS DAUGHTER DIXIE LEA. PAT WAS A TRADER, ESPECIALLY OF CARS AT THE TIME, 1957. HE TRADED FOR A 1940 PLYMOUTH TWO DOOR WHICH HAD BEEN SUGARED [CAUSES MOTOR TO FREEZE UP]. I HELPED HIM PULL THE HEAD AND PAN, REMOVE RODS AND PISTONS WHICH WE THEN BOILED CLEAN IN A 5 GALLON BUCKET OF SOAPY WATER. THEN WE PUT ALL BACK TOGETHER AND STARTED IT. AS WE SAT THERE ADMIRING OUR WORK THE MOTOR STOPPED RUNNING. OH NO PAT EXCLAIMED, I FORGOT TO DRAIN THE GAS TANK! IT HAD SUGARED ITSELF AGAIN. THIS HAPPENED OUT SOUTH OF ELFRIDA,AZ. ON THE OLD LANE PLACE WHERE THEY WERE LIVING AS CARETAKERS AT THE TIME. LANE HAD A HUGE RANCH[FARM] ABOUT HALF WAY TO BISBEE,AZ. AFTER DIXIE & I MARRIED THEY PULLED UP AND WENT BACK TO TEXAS [ODESSA] TO WORK ON A PULLING UNIT IN THE OILFIELD. AFTER HEARING THAT THE PAY WAS 1.40 AN HR. & YOU COULD GET LOTS OF OVERTIME ALSO, WELL ME & DIXIE DECIDED WE WOULD MOVE THERE TOO. ARRIVED JAN. 3RD 1959 & WENT TO WORK IN A COUPLE OF DAYS. I WORKED IN ALL THREE OF THE JOBS IN THE OIL FIELD BUSINESS. PULLING UNITS, ROUGHNECKING & COMMON LABORER. JAMES BRADLEY.
NOTE; PAT WAS A GAMBLER, BUT HE DID NOT GAMBLE HIS ETERNITY AWAY, HE HE ACCEPTED JESUS AS SAVIOUR BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY. JIM 4/14/15
NOTE; PAT WAS A GAMBLER, BUT HE DID NOT GAMBLE HIS ETERNITY AWAY, HE HE ACCEPTED JESUS AS SAVIOUR BEFORE HE PASSED AWAY. JIM 4/14/15
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