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Cochran County, Texas
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GREER
I was born at Carey, Texas April 6, 1924 and moved to Cochran County January 1928. I started to school at Morton and graduated from Morton in 1943. During my Sophomore year Peggy Dell and I went
to San Antonio with Mr. and Mrs. Ledbetter. We were elected to go to school meetings.
After I graduated, I went to Ranger, Texas to train in sheet metal welding and riveting on airplanes. In 1944 I came home and met Roy D. Greer who had moved from Brownfield to Morton in 1942. We were married December 16, 1944.
Roy was born at Spur, Texas October 26, 1921. He attended Draughon Business College in Lubbock. He was manager of Star Route Co-op Gin for eight years, until he had a stroke and lay bedfast for eleven years.
We had one son, Dale Greer. He started toschool at Morton and graduated here. Dale attended South Plains in Levelland and Texas Tech in Lubbock. There he met Cynthia Mailins, married, moved to Dallas and got his Master's Degree in Science
from Souther Methodist University. They have two boys and one girl and live in Santa Barbara, California.
Roy D. died in March 1976, I started to South Plains College in Levelland and got a L.V.N. License and worked in Cochran Memorial Hospital.
I am the only one out of the J. C. Cook family that still resides in Cochran County. I had six brothers and sisters. They are still living. In my teens, a neighbor, Janell Williams, rode a horse to Morton to go to the show to see
Shirely Temple and Betty Booth. I played jacks with Dot and Totsie Lytle; hedged cows with Betty and Lola Fay Cooper; played baseball on the Cook corner with all the neighbor children. The Browning and the Cook children walked to Morton
to see and hear the Medicine Show. Mrs. Floyd Rowland lives on the place where all the Cook family grew up.
Submitted by Juanita Greer
This family history came from Cochran County Legacy Vol. II Copyright Cochran County Historical Commission. Published with permission. The information contained on this page may not be reproduced or published elsewhere without the express written permission of the Cochran County Historical Commission
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