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Volume 7, Issue 1 - Feature #684

Strickland Airport & Flying School East of Alva...

My name is Dari Vickers Sullivan, I am the only daughter of Max Vickers. My father was killed in a car accident June 2005. Today I was just looking through some old paperwork and found this website in His records. How nice to read what he wrote . This is a neat little website, I have enjoyed reading through it.

Dari Vickers Sullivan - 2008-10-16 17:50:42

Vic, We were sorry to here about your brother Max. We never met him, but we communicated through emails and did send me some great stories for me to share in my "OKieLegacy Ezine." Though we never met him personal, we feel we knew him through his stories & legacies he left behind. Thanks for sharing with our OkieLegacy the memories about your brother and Strickland/Vickers family. Thanks for stopping by our collection of OkieLegacies.

Linda McGill Wagner - 2006-03-27 07:46:02

Reference Srickland Airport Flying School. This was written by my oldest brother, Clifford M Vickers, AKA Max. Max was a retired American Airline Captain and resided in Las Vegas. Last year, while driving his Jeep Grand Cherokee and pulling his small RV travel trailer to the mountains and desert which he loved to do, he lost control rounding a curve and was killed. My name is Leon Strickland Vickers and I was born in Alva on East Barnes in November 1937. I grew up in Wichita, KS and as Alva was my Mother's home, we visited a lot. When I was about 10 or so, I briefly attended scholl at Longfellow there in Alva. I can remember going our to my Uncle Leo's airport and playing with the Link Trainer. My Uncle Dave Arndt lived west of Alva, somewhere around Buffalo (I think). Whenever we visited there, we had to go through the caves found on the farm. My parents, Clifford M and Flossie Irene Vickers are buried in the Alva Cemetery (the one on the hill west of town). I have a cousin still in Alva, Carolyn Strickland DeMaree. Max had mentioned this site to me but this is my first visit. I always liked Alva and plan to visit my cousin in the near future.

Vic Vickers - 2006-03-26 21:00:45

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