Loy Dean McGowan

Profile Updated: July 23, 2009
Loy Dean McGowan
Class Year: 1956
Residing In: plano, TX USA
Spouse/Partner: Kay McGowan
Occupation: Financial Advisor
Children: Spencer McGowan; Born in 1964
DeDe McGowan; Born in 1966
Mitchell McGowan; Born in 1970
Military Service: Air Force  
Yes! Attending Reunion
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After getting a degree in Business and Engineering from the Univ of Texas, Austin in 1960 I worked at Colllins Radio in the Systems Division. On the day President Kennedy was assinated, I was involved in a project setting up an emergency radio system for White House Secret Service communications during the transition from Kennedy to Pres Johnson.

In 1966 I began a career as a Flinancial Advisor. In 1969 Schneider Bernett and Hickman elected me as a Partner and Vice President. I served with that firm until 1974 when I moved to PaineWebber which became UBS in the year 2000. Handling client assets has always been my career but along the way I have held titles as Branch Manager, Corp Vice President and Sr Vice President Investments.

One of the interesting projects in my career has been the development of a clientele in Mexico. The beautiful area of Lake Chapala is home to many retired American and Canadian citizens who have moved there. I am typically in Mexico three times a year. Fluent Spanish has eluded me but I have learned enough to order food, services and conduct some business in Spanish.

Hobbies if find interesting are writing, travel and tennis. I have been involved in publishing two books and have written articles for various newspapers including a regular article for the largest English Language paper in Mexico.
My business travels have taken me to Hong Kong, England, Mexico, France, Monte Carlo and Italy. On most of those occasions, my wife Kay has been able to accompany me.

Tennis became a passion late in life. At the age of 36 I began playing regularly and have played on various tennis teams. Three of those teams have been to the state finals and one to the national finals after winning the state in 2006.


School Story:

Memories of Timpson High School are too numerous or incriminating to list but a few direct involvements with my classmates come to mind:
*Painting Seniors '56 on the Water Tower.
*Scheduling Elvis Pressley for a concert in 1954 only to have it cancelled after Heartbreak Hotel hit the pop charts 6 weeks before the concert.
*Our class was the first to have a Senior Trip to New Orleans. The school board banned senior trips outside the area for several years.

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Mar 01, 2025 at 12:30 PM

Bette.... Happy Birthday. As I recall, you have had several of these birthdays. I hope this one is as good as any of the others. Dean McGowan

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Nov 07, 2024 at 10:23 AM

Hey Bobby Dean... We have many happy memories from those Timpson days. Relish them and know we all wish you a happy birthday. Dean McGowan

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Aug 20, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Feb 29, 2024 at 5:07 PM

Hey Bette…. Happy Birthday. Thanks for a lot of good memories in and around Timpson. Dean (Loy Dean)

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Aug 20, 2023 at 3:33 AM
Nov 08, 2022 at 9:27 AM

Wow. Eighty Five years is a long time. Congratulations from your long-time friend -- Loy Dean.. We enjoyed a lot of good times -- elementary, junior high and high school.

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Mar 15, 2022 at 9:50 PM

Posted on: Mar 15, 2022 at 10:10 AM

Hi Bette.... Sorry I missed getting this to you on your birthday but my password wasn't working. Happy birthday and I hope you have a healthy and good year. I hope to see you at the reunion this year assuming we can get that scheduled. Our survivor list is getting smaller. I am glad you are still on it. Dean

Nov 05, 2021 at 10:05 AM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOBBY DEAN. There are so many memories that they can't be posted here. But, here is one: We were out for lunch and starting to play a touch football game on the football field. A loose bull with horns came onto the field and started charging at us. You lured the bull to the gate, letting him charge at you and patted him on the face as he passed by going out the gate. We closed the gate and went on with our game.
Cheers to you this week. Loy Dean

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Mar 02, 2021 at 10:19 PM

Posted on: Mar 02, 2021 at 12:39 PM

Lot's of water under all bridges since I made deliveries to the Bogue community in the 1950s. I am glad to wish you a Happy Birthday again this year and a more normal year as well.

Dean McGowan

Nov 10, 2020 at 1:32 PM

Happy Birthday Bobby Dean. All these memories are sketchy after 64 plus years but we have a lot of them to think back upon...... Chasing cattle off the football field so that we could run track, loading band instruments onto the truck for band trips, hiking along the Sabine River during Christmas Break, shooting birds in your back yard, painting SRs '56 on the water tower etc. etc. Enjoy your 83rd birthday.
Loy Dean

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Mar 02, 2021 at 10:29 PM

Posted on: Mar 02, 2020 at 7:42 PM

Hi Bette. Lots of good memories, special thoughts and love to you and your family on your birthday. Dean

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Aug 20, 2019 at 3:33 AM
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Jan 29, 2018 at 5:12 PM

Posted on: Jan 29, 2018 at 7:39 AM

It was 1945 after my family returned from Houston following the War. I saw this cute little girl holding her mother's hand while walking with Preston and Lurene Billingsley -- both of whom were in the Timpson school system. There was nothing in that scene to suggest that I would be wishing this same little girl Happy Birthday well into the next century some 73 years later.

Thanks Linda for a lot of school memories from Timpson. And, some from The University of Texas where we crossed paths from time to time.

Happy Birthday

Dean McGowan

Jan 29, 2018 at 7:00 AM

Coming up on 70 years of friendship. It was somewhere in the elementary grades that I remember this very bright, confident person named Kenneth who always found something humorous in whatever was happening at school.

Timpson is a small place but it has given us all some really good memories and you helped make those.

Happy Birthday

Dean McGowan ( Loy Dean)

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Nov 05, 2018 at 9:15 AM

Posted on: Nov 10, 2017 at 6:47 AM

Wow... At 80 years old, you must be a lot wiser than you were when we almost got stranded on that freighter pulling away from the docks in New Orleans... or when we.......well there are a lot of stories that we could tell but would not want our grandkids to know. Happy Birthday
And, let's get another reunion going. I miss seeing the class -- those of us who are still here.

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Aug 20, 2017 at 4:01 PM

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