 Sharon Lee Jones was about 3 years old and developing what her parents, Harry and Esther thought might be a permanent lump on her forehead from falling down on the front walk at the home at 1215 McLean. Her older sister, Lynn was just entering L. O. Donald where Sharon would follow soon. They played with Emalee Linville, Randy Stovall, Marc McCord and Linda Airhart at Weiss Park and in Coombs Creek that ran beside it.
Harry resisted being called a Texan for many years because he was born and raised in Kansas, but eventually decided North Texas was a pretty good place to live. He had left home in 1941, moving to Bridgeport, Connecticut to be with his brother and learn the machinist trade. There he met Esther Wiley whom he married after joining the Army Air Corps Cadet program in 1943. Surviving the intense flight training, he graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant, and by April, 1944, had not only flown a B-17 Flying Fortress to England and started flying bombing missions over France and Germany, but already had Esther working on making their first child, Lynn. He succeeded in flying 27 missions without injury, and receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with 3 clusters. Included missions were two to Berlin and one during the D-Day invasion of Europe. He also flew various small military planes and the B-26 Marauder bomber stateside.
After discharge in 1947 he came to Dallas to study photography. Although he didn't go into the photo business, he used the training to be a retail salesman of photo equipment at Thurman Randles, and later at Sears on Ross Avenue. Around 1955, he resumed his machinist profession at Chance Vought in Grand Prairie for a few years, subsequently working at Collins Radio and other job shops in the area. Esther worked as a secretary at Anchor Fence on Davis but was most famous as Sharon's Brownie Troop leader, meeting at a little wood building on Clarendon and organizing a great camp out in the woods at Keist and Coombs Creek which they called Whispering Cedars. Lynn got married in the Unitarian Church which Harry helped organize and soon graduated from high school in 1961. In 1963 the house on McLean was traded on one on Larkspur Lane, near Kimball High School. Sharon attended Stockard and Kimball, then a year at Baylor in Waco. She then moved to Modesto, California where she presently lives with her husband, Brent McDonald. Harry was almost famous as a poet and actor with a community theatre. Esther having died of emphysema in 1986, Harry still lives on Larkspur with Toby, his cat and has engaged in various volunteer positions with the Dallas Zoo, Proyecto Adelante, Charleton Hospital and an Emergency Aid food pantry in Oak Cliff. He is also active in the Unitarian Church of which he was a Charter Member. |
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