Loy Dean McGowan

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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.

Posted on: Aug 20, 2017 at 3:33 AM

Posted on: Mar 07, 2017 at 6:26 AM

Bette.... When we start counting our past in decades instead of years, we know that a lot of time has passed since our high school years. Time, however, doesn't dull the memory of how special those days were.
I hope you have a happy birthday. Give me an update when you get a chance.
There is not too much new to report here. I am still working -- about 2/3 speed these days. I just got back from skiing at Copper Mountain. I am thankful that my knees still work after all these years. We went to Santa Fe last year but that is all the travelling that I have to report. Grandson Cole graduated from UT last year and the youngest granddaughter, Anna, will graduate from there next year. One grandson is in Colorado "finding himself." The oldest grandson is in New York training to become a partner in my business here. When he gets back, I think I will finally retire.
I am a mentor to an MBA student at UTD this semester. Her name is Ayla and she is pretty and brilliant. The mentor thing is in connection with my membership on the UTD School of Management Board.
Update me when you get a chance.

Hey. I am a bit late but wishing you a happy birthday and a good 2017. Bring me up to date when you get a chance.
*How is Paul doing?
*Have you been traveling any?
*What's new with the kids/grandkids?

There is not much new here. We had short trips to NY and Santa Fe recently but nothing more. I have been spending more time at UT Dallas where I serve on the Business School Board now. Getting involved with the student groups has been quite rewarding. I have a speech to the MBA graduating class next week.
The kids gave us tickets to American Bandstand for Christmas and the show was here last week. Several of those old-as-we-are performers are still singing. It brought back a lot of memories. And, it reminded us how long ago were the 1960's.

My email is dean.mcgowan@ubs.com if want to use that to bring me up to date.