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When Rusty was 5, I went back to work at the radio station as local News Editor,
working half-days while Rusty went to kindergarten at the Christian Church next
door. After he went to school, I worked full-time doing the news, writing
commercials, programming the daily log and whatever else that needed
doing-serving under 9 managers until the end of 1970.
On January 1, 1971, I initiated the Tax Office for the Ingram Independent School
District, with my office in the school. In addition to assessing and collecting taxes
for the 209-square-mile district, I served as a substitute teacher, office secretary,
kept the teachers' attendance records, took tickets at ball games and typed all the
tax rolls and tax statements. Eventually as the district grew, the job outgrew one
person. I was spending all my time at the office and it became unfair to my family.
The work was getting done, so the School Board could not see the need to give me
help. When I resigned, they hired several people, got computers-and hired an
appraisal team to do assessments.
In June 1977, I went to work at the Chas. Schreiner Bank in Kerrville in
preparation for the opening of the Ingram State Bank the following year. When we
opened in Ingram, I served as head teller. For several years, we were housed in a
mobile unit before we got our real bank next door. I was eventually promoted to
Assistant Vice-President. I had served as secretary of the local chapter of the
National Bank Women, president of the American business Women's Association
and was selected as "Woman of the Year" in 1980 by the Kerrville chapter.
In the summer of 1984, I had back surgery to correct three herniated discs. I was
allergic to the papaya enzyme that was injected and after the first injection, I had a
chronic asthma attack. After they got me breathing again, they injected the other
two discs and I went into anaphylactic shock. It was late in the day before they
gave Temple any hope that I would survive. Knowing the seriousness of what was
happening, my biggest concern was that we had not told my parents about the
surgery to spare them concern-and now it could be tragic. However, the Lord was
good and the surgery successful.
I left the Ingram State Bank in May of 1985 and hoped to stay home for a while.
The phone rang-a new Savings & Loan was coming to town and I was offered
more remuneration as a teller than I had made as an officer-an offer I couldn't
refuse! I later served as manager of the branch of Southeastern Savings, but after
two years of beautiful furnishings and the very newest equipment, the era of
savings and loans was over and they closed their newest branches.
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