Volume 9 , Issue 2

Oklahoma Memories Out of the Past

"There are so many Perry connections these days. Stewart, Sr. was a member of our church here in Perry and one of the notes I tried to answer to Max (another psychologist) I mentioned that Beasley, Sr. had designed our counties rural water system so that the farm ponds could be linked in case of severe drouth (we're not there yet, but close) to provide additional water supplies for anyone in need. Stewart, Sr. has a daughter living in Vegas, and a granddaughter, Jennifer Dillard (best "buddy" of my daughter-in-law Juli) still in our church.

Coach Faye O'Dell (who also moved to Edmond after retiring here) had been a prisoner on Corregidor at the same time that Wayne Liles was a prisoner on Bataan. Wayne told me once that he weighed less than 90 pounds when he was freed. Hard to believe that he could have EVER been that thin isn't it? I think that his widow Margaret is still a member of Britton Christian.

More Perry relatives made the Oklahoma news this week when it was revealed that the twin grandsons of Gordon Johnson (he and his wife Gwen are also members of our church, as is his ex-wife, Melody) were the first twins (and I think the youngest people) to receive the Cochlear implants (and isn't that doctor/inventor also from Edmond?) to give them hearing for the first time. We really live in an amazing age." -- Roy
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