| In
a previous life: It was in the early fall of 1962, when my employment moved me
to Hopkins County, Sulphur
Springs, Texas. There I lived in a rented house with my family for a full
three years, until the early fall of 1965.
Then my employment transferred
me to Dallas, where, after selling our
property in Mahoney, we managed to make payment on our first home purchase in
Mesquite, a Dallas
suburb. We lived a short distance from the “Big Ten” Shopping Center in Mesquite
and I was about twelve miles to my work base near down town Dallas.
Those
three years in Sulphur
Springs were exciting and enjoyable; a real learning experience for a couple
of young Native Texans. Our youngest son was born at the Hopkins County Memorial
Hospital in 1963.
While living and working in Sulphur
Springs, it seemed to me we would live there long enough to invest in some
real property with a potential for profit. So I did!
In 1964, property
came on the market that I could afford to buy. And guess what?... It was the old
town square of Mahoney. I purchased
two acres on the southeast corner of Farm Roads 69 and 1537, about four miles
due south of the thriving metropolis of Dike,
Texas. Of course I could envision building my wife a nice, big, comfortable
brick home on the corner lot there.
But that never happened! I had to
sell the Mahoney property to help buy our new home in Mesquite
in the early fall of 1965. A relative of the County Sheriff paid me a good price
for it. I have never regretted selling Mahoney,
Texas, nor leaving Hopkins County at all. I left some good times and wonderful
memories there.
It is ironic here, how all these three year intervals
consistently occurred in the early fall every time. Once again, in the early fall
of 1968, my job transferred me from Dallas
to Houston. We then decided to live
in Montgomery County, Conroe, Texas,
where we rented for a while and later bought a small house.
During those
early years my wife was a stay at home mom, raising two young sons. She later
became employed outside the home. Here again, in the early fall of 1971. She found
a job she dearly loved and spent she next 31 ½ years as a secretary for Montgomery
County Texas, and retired in 2002.
See Mahoney,
Texas
© Nolan Maxie
"Nolan
Maxie"
October 1, 2010 Column
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