George G. McBee

After completion of school at Carbon, I attended Ranger Jr. College. After graduation, I enrolled at Texas A&M University and graduated in 1951 with B.S. degree in Agronomy & commission as 2nd Lt. in U. S. Army. Called to active duty within 6 weeks and served as a Company Commander from 1952-53 in the Korean War in combat with Communist Chinese.
Upon return to United States accepted employment as an Ass't. Co. Agent, Extension Service in San Antonio, TX. While there, I met my wife to be, Ida Jane (Janie) and we were married June 25, 1954.
Returned to Texas A&M in 1954 and completed M.S. degree in soil chemistry. Our first daughter, Cindy was born while there. Upon graduation, I accepted employment as area agronomist with the Extension Service at Weslaco, TX. Our second daughter, Nancy Gail was born in 1958. Relocated back to College Station in 1960 as a State wide Agronomist.
Was offered an Anderson-Clayton fellowship in 1962 and began work toward a Ph.D. degree which I completed in 1965. Accepted a position as a professor at Texas A&M University and retired in 1989. During the interval, I was transferred to Lubbock, TX in 1969 as Director of the Texas A&M Research Center located there and returned to the A&M campus in 1975 as a Professor in both resesarch and teaching.
I continued to remain in the Army Reserves after returning from the Korean War and retired in 1978 as a Lt. Col.
As indicated elsewhere, Janie and I have four grandchildren, Jennifer, David, Matthew & Michael which we communicate and visit with regularly and "really" enjoy.
After retirement, Janie and I have travelled, having visited much of the United States and several of the countries in Europe, including Germany, France, U. K., Italy, Switzerland, Scandinavian nations and Russia. I was also asked to serve as a consultant on a team sent to Russia to advise them on food crop production. That was a very interesting trip which showed the austere conditions that exist in Russia.
Both Janie and I teach a Sunday School class at the First Baptist Church in Bryan. Janie is active in several volunteer activities including serving as a Docent at the Bush Presidential Library located on the University campus. I have continued as a member of the Kiwanis club and am involved in several of their projects such as building ramps on homes of disabled people.
We both enjoy visiting in Eastland, attending church at the Mangum Baptist Church and participation at our Carbon School campus.

The school years at Carbon were very enjoyable, educational and provide many pleasant memories. The years occurred during the depression era and World War II. We had very little money and not many places to go for teenage entertainment. One of the "big" events was our class plays. During my senior year, we would go at nights to the school auditorium to practice. On one of these occasions, we noticed a pane was missing from the upper part of the door at the south entrance of the school building. Concurrently, about 4-5 of we senior boys noticed there were several stray dogs and cats that "seemed" to want a place to spend the night. Our idea was to catch those animals that we could and insert them through the pane into the building. My understanding is that the building was a noisy place, more likely resembling a kennel when Mr. Hayes, custodian arrived the next morning to open the building to begin the school day. Of course, upon inquiry, our memories completely failed us as to who participated in the event.

I only have a third cousin living in Eastland.

I turned 80 on August 15, 2009, but still play golf,
travel, work in the yard and do various physical exercises, thus don't feel as old as some think an 80 year old person should.

Travel to National Parks, significant sites within other states, concerts, good restaurants and of course church and church functions.

Life of King David.

Football.
Texas A&M.
Dallas Cowboys.

Chicken fried steak.
German chocolate cake.

Yes. Pursue your Christianity, education, and choose your lifelong mate wisely being sure she is a person of strong character and a Christian.