The NW Okie

A Little Bit About Me...

It was 60 years ago, 11:35a.m., Alva General Hospital, a third (3rd) daughter was born to Vada E. Paris (31 years) and Gene M. McGill (33 years). Linda Kay was a Winter baby weighing in at 6lbs-1oz and cute, quiet & shy most of her growing up school years. Her parents arrived just in the neck of time at the Alva hospital with 1-1/2 hrs to spare before Li'l Linda's arrival.

My Father...

Gene McGill was born Dec, 1914 and died June, 1986. He was the oldest son of William Jacob McGill and Constance Estella (Warwick) McGill. Gene had a younger brother, Robert "Bob" McGill, that was born August, 1916 and died February 1954.

My Mother...

Vada Paris was born November, 1916 and died July, 1992. She was the fourth child and oldest daughter of Ernest Claude Paris and Mary Barbara Hurt from around Chester (Tailholt), Oklahoma, Major County. Vada had six brothers and two sisters.

My Sisters & Me....

This is a 1955 photo of Linda, Dorthy, and Amber in the backyard, 703 7th Street, Alva, Oklahoma, sitting on the top of a white-wooden picnic table.

About Me...

I was raised the third daughter of four (McGill Sisters) in the Gene McGill & Vada Paris Family. My life began Fifty-some years ago, but I won't take you that far back. Let's just say that I was born in the era of the Baby Boomers. We were raised in a Small, Rural, Community located in Woods County in the NW Corner of Oklahoma.

My father was a Rancher/Farmer/Democrat with a pharmacist degree from OU in 1937. My mother was a homemaker who went back to school in the early fifties to get her teaching degree in Home Economics.

My Schooling began at Horace Mann Elementary in Kindergarten and progressed thru Washington Elementary, Alva Jr. High, Alva High and Northwestern State College. I graduated from NWOSU (NSC) in Alva, OK, USA in 1971 with a BA Degree in Art & Sociology.

A 1969 Mid-Summer, July Wedding united David Wagner & Linda McGill after a year courtship during our time at NSC. In the Early-Fall of 1970 our oldest Son, Michael, started our family while we were living, working, and finishing College at NSC in Alva,Oklahoma. (It was back in the mid 1960s during the days of the VietNam War, Peace, Love, and Hippies.. [Although, I never was a Hippie.]

In the Early-Summer (June) of 1973 David, Linda and son (Michael) were blessed with their second son (Michael's brother), Robert. David was working for Kerr-MaGee Research & Engineering and we were living in Edmond, OK, USA. In (or about 1975) David got a job with Exxon Engineering, Baytown, TX and the four of us became Texas-Okies for five or six years before we moved back to Alva, OK about 1980.

I love to listen to music of the "Rock-n-Roll Oldies" (50's, 60's, 70, 80's, etc...)! I also like "Classical, Jazz, and Country!" One of my favorite Radio stations back then was KOMA and it still plays the "Oldies".

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