Paul Tevis (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ptevis) wrote,@ 2008-04-08 15:32:00 |
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gordon joseph tevis: 1908 - 1979
My Grampa Tevis died when I was about year old. I have no memory of him at all, and my family never talks about him. Today, my father emailed me and let me know that last Wednesday would have been his 100th birthday. My father said,
My Grampa Tevis died when I was about year old. I have no memory of him at all, and my family never talks about him. Today, my father emailed me and let me know that last Wednesday would have been his 100th birthday. My father said,
He was likeable, relatively quiet, not exactly driven, fairly short -- about 5' 6". He was built like his mother. His father was tall and slender. However, he played on Lawton's H.S. boys team that went to the state tournament. He was one of the middle children in the family. And during the depression, he milked cows on the County Farm along the old highway 141. Jobs were hard to come by. He farmed the farm after my grandfather Burns retired from farming.Among other things that I didn't I realize: My father, the eldest child in the family, was born when his father was 39.
