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In Memoriam 2021 Dues ! Vol. 25 July – September 2020 No. 3 gatherings will be like, but I hope you all have a President’s Message very happy Holiday Season! Stay safe! Larry Skinner Larry I hope and pray that you and yours are all safe, and have been able to avoid the In Memoriam Covid -- and if not, I hope yours was a by Ann Christmas mild case (if there is such a thing). The Retiree Club has been notified since our last Except for grocery and discount stores, I’ve pretty newsletter of the following deceased members. much stayed “hunkered down”, but I did score Our sincere sympathy goes out to the families of tickets to the opening game of the World Series, so those listed. Each will be missed. I couldn’t pass that up! Globe Life is an absolutely beautiful park and the retractable roof is amazing Mel L. Roten – 6-9-2016 (it’ll pay for itself during the first few hot summers Ann Holt – 1-26-2020 (if the Rangers can field a team, and that might be a Helen Wells Roten – 9-3-2020 big if!). Anyway, I felt completely safe, enjoyed it, Robert (Bob) Lawrence Babcock – 9-14-2020 and now I’m back to “hunkering” and hoping that Arthur Lewis Latimer, Jr. – 9-15-2020 we don’t have a complete shutdown, as that might Renee Griffin Hallmark – 9-24-2020 tank the economy. Don Truelock – 9-28-2020 Joseph O. Norris, Sr. – 10-3-2020 The Fall weather so far has been fantastic, and it’s Paul Edward Taylor – 10-9-2020 just a shame that we can’t have some type of Joan G. (Armstrong) Mize – 10-29-2020 Retiree Club gathering to take advantage of it, but Drake M. Benthall – 11-9-2020 that’s just not possible until the “all clear” sign is given. However, if anyone has any ideas for Renew your membership for 2021, something we could plan for next year, please let us and continue to get your know and we’ll seriously consider it. Vought Retiree Club News! So, I drove through JSF recently and nothing much Call the Club at (817) 478-1885 Chairman of Major Programs – Jim Hill has changed. The major buildings (1, 6, 7, 49, 94) are still standing, but everything to the south and or Email: [email protected] V.P. - Membership Assistant – Ann Christmas [email protected] east of them is new warehouses/distribution centers. Pretty impressive operation. If you’re near Grand 2021 Dues ! Prairie for some reason, you might want to take the by Gaye Kortegast drive. Just go to what used to be the main gate and follow the road out to 14th street. There’s no It’s time to send in your 2021 membership dues! security at that entrance. (If you’re not sure whether or not you’ve renewed, you may check the mailing label on this newsletter Is it just me, or is Triumph Aerostructures trying to for status of your membership.) get out of the aerostructures business? Seems like If you would like to renew for 2021, please send they’re closing and/or selling off all of their plants your dues as soon as you can ! and programs. Hmmmmm. The cost is still only $5.00 per person per year. Sorry I didn’t have much to report (do I ever, You may renew for as many years as you desire. really?). Or, Lifetime memberships are only $50 per person. We hope to hear from you soon. Not sure what Thanksgiving or Christmas Thank you ! Retiree Correspondence Is there was a way to get a copy of the photo on page 15 (A7 Assy. Line JSF) of the current The article in last edition of the Vought Retiree newsletter? The photo reminded me of what I saw Club News, “Chance Vought and LTV Aerospace – on my first day of working at LTV, 6-11-1968. A Family Affair” received a lot of attention, and Charlie Grona several responses. Your Editor, Bob Bardo, (Charlie was sent an electronic copy of the photo by compiled the list from his own files of Vought and Editor Bob Bardo.) LTV employees, and from information provided by other retirees. It was another labor of love that I Charlie Hollabaugh called to say how much he liked had been thinking about writing for some time. the Vought Retiree Club News. He also stated that he was not complaining whatsoever, but his name October 16, 2020 was left off as were those of his father and his son, I noticed in the last Vought Retiree News that you both of whom worked at Vought. Also, that Kenda were making a list of families who worked at Stacy’s parents were named Goldfuss. Vought. Charlie Hollabaugh I went to work there in 1948. Clyde Farrell Langley. My brother also the same year. Byron Three generations: Wildo (Alex) Alexander, wife Elbert Langley. Ann Alexander, daughter Reba (Gail) Alexander I enjoy the News very much. Helms, sons Rick Alexander, Trennis Alexander, Thanks, Danny Alexander, grandson Jeremy Helms; Farrell Langley approx. 160 years of service. 205 N. Bonnie Brae #307 Wildo Alexander Denton, Texas 76201 Family Connections Related to the Aircraft October 16, 2020 Manufacturing Plant Located Along West I’m responding to the “Family Affair” article in the Jefferson Street in Dallas, Texas April-June 2020 Vought Retiree Club News. What a lot of memories your question about the I found that our names were not listed. above subject recalled. As suggested, will you please add the following to As for myself, I worked for 36 years between 1959 your list and 1995 either at the plant or on field assignments James (Jimmy) Hale and Norma Hale (husband & for the Engineering and Logistics Department. I met wife) Thanks! my wife, Shirley Owens, at the plant in the late Jimmy worked in several areas but liked his 1980s when she worked in the Technical position in the Test Lab the most. I was Joe Publications Department. Andrasko’s secretary in Employment. Going further back in time to 1951 my mother, Ada Your Club News is very interesting and we Mae Stem, was hired at the plant by the United appreciate your serving as one of the Directors. Aircraft Corporation to be a trainee for a Machine Blessings, Shop job. She qualified for and was offered a full- Norma Hale time position as a drill press operator, but she didn’t 809 Windsor Place accept because a lady she was going to carpool with Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 failed to get a full-time job offer. I still have my Mother’s United Aircraft Corporation badge. October 20, 2020 Beyond immediate family, I had a first cousin by Dues for Judy Wetzel & Bill Wetzel, 2020 & 2021 marriage, Don Wilson, who retired from the USAF I have relatives who have worked at LTV while I and was hired at the plant where he worked in the was employed there. Quality Control Department in the 1970s and 1980s. Daughter – Margie Walker Other family members worked at the plant facility Son -- Greg Wetzel over the years for sub-contractors who were doing I didn’t realize that you had ever collected this info. work there. My brother, Don Stem and a first I enjoyed reading the list. cousin, LC Jones, both of whom were Union Iron Hi Gaye! Workers (structural steel erectors), worked on new Judy Wetzel & Bill Wetzel hangers and engine run structures in the airport area of the plant. My brother, Don Stem, also worked for Volunteer events give us all an opportunity to make a sub-contractor repairing and maintaining the large a positive impact in our communities by helping power operated doors that were necessary for those who are in need. moving airplanes and other large equipment in and Retirees, family, and friends are invited to out of buildings. participate in these events. Give me a call and let Another first cousin, Carol Cruze and her husband me know if you would like to join us. David Cruze, owned an electrical company that For more information, call Johnnie Johnson at installed and repaired electrical systems. For 817-845-7576, or the Retiree Club at 817-478-1885. perhaps a period of a couple of years they kept an Thanks for your help! office and equipment trailer that I would see parked Johnnie Johnson near the plant wastewater treatment facility on the south end of the plant property. In an almost forgotten connection in the 1958 to Newsletter Editor is Bob Bardo 1960 time period my sister, Thelma Mae Stem, dated a young man who was an hourly machinist employed at the plant. The relationship didn’t even approach an engagement stage, and I have to admit that neither my sister nor myself can remember his name. For possibly the least connection at all, we must go back 79 years to the beginning of the WWII era of 1941 to 1945 when the plant was occupied by North Since 3 letters to the Vought Retiree Club were American Aviation. In those war years, myself and addressed to Connie Singleton, I thought I should my family were living in an 1850s vintage old let everyone know that Connie Singleton has been farmhouse on a family leased dairy and wheat farm. Editor Emeritus since April-June 2013. The house was heated by two wood burning Connie asked me help for the January-March 2013 fireplaces. The wood supply generally came from newsletter, and then asked me to take over being trees chopped and sawed down and rendered into Editor so that she could devote more time to her usable sizes by axe and crosscut saw.
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