CHILDREN:
Lynda Lou Duncan
Douglas Gerald "Doug" Duncan
Stacey Michelle Duncan
Leonard Duncan, a twin, born to Carl & Beulah Duncan in Killeen, Texas. Lived in Texas all of his life. Leonard married Alfa Lou Moore in Lometa, Texas on June 5, 1942, in Lometa, Texas. They had 3 children, 2 grandchildren and 4 gr-grandchildren. They lived to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary.
Dad was one of 4 children born to Carl & Beulah. His brothers were Linuel (NMI)his twin, Loyd Earl, and Robert Gayle. The boys were born and raised in the community called Long Cove, in Lampasas Co., Texas, outside of Lometa. They had farm chores to do, and walked 12 miles to school in all weather. (The stories I heard about that could fill volumes!!) After their dad died when the twins were 16, their mom sold the farm (120 acres), and moved into the town of Lometa. It was too much for her to run by herself. Therefore, Dad attended Lometa High School and graduated from that school, along with his twin.
Those twin Duncan boys were known far and wide, and in the family, for sure, as they were quite mischevious, and fun loving! They were also handsome fellas, and had such a sweet nature to go along with their high spiritedness, that people didn't get mad at them for the pranks they played. They loved to roam the fields, and climb the mountain behind their house, with their rifle in hand, hunting and being very adventurous. There was a big stream with a deep swimming hole nearby (The Blue Hole it's called, which is now in Mills County), and they loved to sneak off over there and skinny dip. There were many cousins to play with, as that entire area and adjacent Mills County land was filled with Duncan relatives. One of the County Roads had so many Duncan families living off and on it, they still call it Duncan Lane to this day.
One story I particularly loved was when Dad and his twin wanted to venture off exploring, and their 3 year old brother Gayle kept following them time and again when they would turn around and take him home. So, they finally took the little skinny, determined youngster and hung him up by his coveralls on the clothes line and scurried off to have some adventures. When my grandmother found Uncle Gayle dangling from the clothesline and yelling his head off, the twins caught 'what for'!! She usually never got mad, but that little trick got her dander up!
After High School Leonard married Alfa Lou Moore, and had enlisted in the Army Air Force to serve the country.
A WWII Veteran, Leonard joined the Air Force in 1942, and he made rank of Corporal. His great desire was to fly planes, but because of his color blindness (he only could not distinguish red from green - and all planes have cockpit lights that are in red & green!), he could not become a pilot like he dreamed of. He did become a mechanic and worked on the planes, and the B-46 was his favorite. He never got to see the fighting, much to his disappointment, as when he finally got orders to go overseas, their ship never left dock, as the war was over and they pulled the men back off the ship. A great disappointment for him.
After the war, he returned to Lometa and gathered up his wife and 2 year old daughter (me), and they left to live in Dallas, so he could work for Vought Aeronautics (again, a place that made airplanes, his love). He worked for them for many years, then changed jobs to work for Fritz W. Glitch & sons, a steel manufacturing plant, where he was Foreman. He retired from Glitch, and not one to be idle, he went to work with a friend, surveying.
Dad loved to hunt, fish, golf, and dance. We spent one or more weekends a month traveling back down to Lometa where both his mother and my mom's parents lived. There was always family to hunt and fish with, with lively Canasta Games played after dinner. He spent a lot of time with his brothers, as we are a very close family. He was a great dad, and a very honest and true man. He had a wonderful sense of humor and loved his family deeply.
Leonard and Lou had 3 children: Lynda Lou "Lyn" Duncan; Douglas Gerald "Doug" Duncan; Stacey Michelle "Mich" Duncan; 2 grandchildren: Matt Meinke and wife, Amy Toole of Commerce, Tx.; Meghan Michelle Smith and husband Chris Leach of Illinois; and 4 gr-grandchildren, Tristin, Cheyenne Lou, Kaden, and Devin Leach.
He died in Arlington, Texas at the Arlington Memorial Hospital of heart failure, at the age of 80 years old.
His request was to be cremated and his ashes spread at his favorite Deer Camp in Lometa, Lampasas County, Texas, which the entire family did, after 2 memorial services. One service in Grand Prairie, Texas at the Baptist Church near his home, and the other in Lometa, Texas at the Methodist Church. There are no physical markers where his ashes are strewn.
Lynda Lou Duncan
Douglas Gerald "Doug" Duncan
Stacey Michelle Duncan
Leonard Duncan, a twin, born to Carl & Beulah Duncan in Killeen, Texas. Lived in Texas all of his life. Leonard married Alfa Lou Moore in Lometa, Texas on June 5, 1942, in Lometa, Texas. They had 3 children, 2 grandchildren and 4 gr-grandchildren. They lived to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary.
Dad was one of 4 children born to Carl & Beulah. His brothers were Linuel (NMI)his twin, Loyd Earl, and Robert Gayle. The boys were born and raised in the community called Long Cove, in Lampasas Co., Texas, outside of Lometa. They had farm chores to do, and walked 12 miles to school in all weather. (The stories I heard about that could fill volumes!!) After their dad died when the twins were 16, their mom sold the farm (120 acres), and moved into the town of Lometa. It was too much for her to run by herself. Therefore, Dad attended Lometa High School and graduated from that school, along with his twin.
Those twin Duncan boys were known far and wide, and in the family, for sure, as they were quite mischevious, and fun loving! They were also handsome fellas, and had such a sweet nature to go along with their high spiritedness, that people didn't get mad at them for the pranks they played. They loved to roam the fields, and climb the mountain behind their house, with their rifle in hand, hunting and being very adventurous. There was a big stream with a deep swimming hole nearby (The Blue Hole it's called, which is now in Mills County), and they loved to sneak off over there and skinny dip. There were many cousins to play with, as that entire area and adjacent Mills County land was filled with Duncan relatives. One of the County Roads had so many Duncan families living off and on it, they still call it Duncan Lane to this day.
One story I particularly loved was when Dad and his twin wanted to venture off exploring, and their 3 year old brother Gayle kept following them time and again when they would turn around and take him home. So, they finally took the little skinny, determined youngster and hung him up by his coveralls on the clothes line and scurried off to have some adventures. When my grandmother found Uncle Gayle dangling from the clothesline and yelling his head off, the twins caught 'what for'!! She usually never got mad, but that little trick got her dander up!
After High School Leonard married Alfa Lou Moore, and had enlisted in the Army Air Force to serve the country.
A WWII Veteran, Leonard joined the Air Force in 1942, and he made rank of Corporal. His great desire was to fly planes, but because of his color blindness (he only could not distinguish red from green - and all planes have cockpit lights that are in red & green!), he could not become a pilot like he dreamed of. He did become a mechanic and worked on the planes, and the B-46 was his favorite. He never got to see the fighting, much to his disappointment, as when he finally got orders to go overseas, their ship never left dock, as the war was over and they pulled the men back off the ship. A great disappointment for him.
After the war, he returned to Lometa and gathered up his wife and 2 year old daughter (me), and they left to live in Dallas, so he could work for Vought Aeronautics (again, a place that made airplanes, his love). He worked for them for many years, then changed jobs to work for Fritz W. Glitch & sons, a steel manufacturing plant, where he was Foreman. He retired from Glitch, and not one to be idle, he went to work with a friend, surveying.
Dad loved to hunt, fish, golf, and dance. We spent one or more weekends a month traveling back down to Lometa where both his mother and my mom's parents lived. There was always family to hunt and fish with, with lively Canasta Games played after dinner. He spent a lot of time with his brothers, as we are a very close family. He was a great dad, and a very honest and true man. He had a wonderful sense of humor and loved his family deeply.
Leonard and Lou had 3 children: Lynda Lou "Lyn" Duncan; Douglas Gerald "Doug" Duncan; Stacey Michelle "Mich" Duncan; 2 grandchildren: Matt Meinke and wife, Amy Toole of Commerce, Tx.; Meghan Michelle Smith and husband Chris Leach of Illinois; and 4 gr-grandchildren, Tristin, Cheyenne Lou, Kaden, and Devin Leach.
He died in Arlington, Texas at the Arlington Memorial Hospital of heart failure, at the age of 80 years old.
His request was to be cremated and his ashes spread at his favorite Deer Camp in Lometa, Lampasas County, Texas, which the entire family did, after 2 memorial services. One service in Grand Prairie, Texas at the Baptist Church near his home, and the other in Lometa, Texas at the Methodist Church. There are no physical markers where his ashes are strewn.
CHILDREN:
Lynda Lou Duncan
Douglas Gerald "Doug" Duncan
Stacey Michelle Duncan
Leonard Duncan, a twin, born to Carl & Beulah Duncan in Killeen, Texas. Lived in Texas all of his life. Leonard married Alfa Lou Moore in Lometa, Texas on June 5, 1942, in Lometa, Texas. They had 3 children, 2 grandchildren and 4 gr-grandchildren. They lived to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary.
Dad was one of 4 children born to Carl & Beulah. His brothers were Linuel (NMI)his twin, Loyd Earl, and Robert Gayle. The boys were born and raised in the community called Long Cove, in Lampasas Co., Texas, outside of Lometa. They had farm chores to do, and walked 12 miles to school in all weather. (The stories I heard about that could fill volumes!!) After their dad died when the twins were 16, their mom sold the farm (120 acres), and moved into the town of Lometa. It was too much for her to run by herself. Therefore, Dad attended Lometa High School and graduated from that school, along with his twin.
Those twin Duncan boys were known far and wide, and in the family, for sure, as they were quite mischevious, and fun loving! They were also handsome fellas, and had such a sweet nature to go along with their high spiritedness, that people didn't get mad at them for the pranks they played. They loved to roam the fields, and climb the mountain behind their house, with their rifle in hand, hunting and being very adventurous. There was a big stream with a deep swimming hole nearby (The Blue Hole it's called, which is now in Mills County), and they loved to sneak off over there and skinny dip. There were many cousins to play with, as that entire area and adjacent Mills County land was filled with Duncan relatives. One of the County Roads had so many Duncan families living off and on it, they still call it Duncan Lane to this day.
One story I particularly loved was when Dad and his twin wanted to venture off exploring, and their 3 year old brother Gayle kept following them time and again when they would turn around and take him home. So, they finally took the little skinny, determined youngster and hung him up by his coveralls on the clothes line and scurried off to have some adventures. When my grandmother found Uncle Gayle dangling from the clothesline and yelling his head off, the twins caught 'what for'!! She usually never got mad, but that little trick got her dander up!
After High School Leonard married Alfa Lou Moore, and had enlisted in the Army Air Force to serve the country.
A WWII Veteran, Leonard joined the Air Force in 1942, and he made rank of Corporal. His great desire was to fly planes, but because of his color blindness (he only could not distinguish red from green - and all planes have cockpit lights that are in red & green!), he could not become a pilot like he dreamed of. He did become a mechanic and worked on the planes, and the B-46 was his favorite. He never got to see the fighting, much to his disappointment, as when he finally got orders to go overseas, their ship never left dock, as the war was over and they pulled the men back off the ship. A great disappointment for him.
After the war, he returned to Lometa and gathered up his wife and 2 year old daughter (me), and they left to live in Dallas, so he could work for Vought Aeronautics (again, a place that made airplanes, his love). He worked for them for many years, then changed jobs to work for Fritz W. Glitch & sons, a steel manufacturing plant, where he was Foreman. He retired from Glitch, and not one to be idle, he went to work with a friend, surveying.
Dad loved to hunt, fish, golf, and dance. We spent one or more weekends a month traveling back down to Lometa where both his mother and my mom's parents lived. There was always family to hunt and fish with, with lively Canasta Games played after dinner. He spent a lot of time with his brothers, as we are a very close family. He was a great dad, and a very honest and true man. He had a wonderful sense of humor and loved his family deeply.
Leonard and Lou had 3 children: Lynda Lou "Lyn" Duncan; Douglas Gerald "Doug" Duncan; Stacey Michelle "Mich" Duncan; 2 grandchildren: Matt Meinke and wife, Amy Toole of Commerce, Tx.; Meghan Michelle Smith and husband Chris Leach of Illinois; and 4 gr-grandchildren, Tristin, Cheyenne Lou, Kaden, and Devin Leach.
He died in Arlington, Texas at the Arlington Memorial Hospital of heart failure, at the age of 80 years old.
His request was to be cremated and his ashes spread at his favorite Deer Camp in Lometa, Lampasas County, Texas, which the entire family did, after 2 memorial services. One service in Grand Prairie, Texas at the Baptist Church near his home, and the other in Lometa, Texas at the Methodist Church. There are no physical markers where his ashes are strewn.
Lynda Lou Duncan
Douglas Gerald "Doug" Duncan
Stacey Michelle Duncan
Leonard Duncan, a twin, born to Carl & Beulah Duncan in Killeen, Texas. Lived in Texas all of his life. Leonard married Alfa Lou Moore in Lometa, Texas on June 5, 1942, in Lometa, Texas. They had 3 children, 2 grandchildren and 4 gr-grandchildren. They lived to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary.
Dad was one of 4 children born to Carl & Beulah. His brothers were Linuel (NMI)his twin, Loyd Earl, and Robert Gayle. The boys were born and raised in the community called Long Cove, in Lampasas Co., Texas, outside of Lometa. They had farm chores to do, and walked 12 miles to school in all weather. (The stories I heard about that could fill volumes!!) After their dad died when the twins were 16, their mom sold the farm (120 acres), and moved into the town of Lometa. It was too much for her to run by herself. Therefore, Dad attended Lometa High School and graduated from that school, along with his twin.
Those twin Duncan boys were known far and wide, and in the family, for sure, as they were quite mischevious, and fun loving! They were also handsome fellas, and had such a sweet nature to go along with their high spiritedness, that people didn't get mad at them for the pranks they played. They loved to roam the fields, and climb the mountain behind their house, with their rifle in hand, hunting and being very adventurous. There was a big stream with a deep swimming hole nearby (The Blue Hole it's called, which is now in Mills County), and they loved to sneak off over there and skinny dip. There were many cousins to play with, as that entire area and adjacent Mills County land was filled with Duncan relatives. One of the County Roads had so many Duncan families living off and on it, they still call it Duncan Lane to this day.
One story I particularly loved was when Dad and his twin wanted to venture off exploring, and their 3 year old brother Gayle kept following them time and again when they would turn around and take him home. So, they finally took the little skinny, determined youngster and hung him up by his coveralls on the clothes line and scurried off to have some adventures. When my grandmother found Uncle Gayle dangling from the clothesline and yelling his head off, the twins caught 'what for'!! She usually never got mad, but that little trick got her dander up!
After High School Leonard married Alfa Lou Moore, and had enlisted in the Army Air Force to serve the country.
A WWII Veteran, Leonard joined the Air Force in 1942, and he made rank of Corporal. His great desire was to fly planes, but because of his color blindness (he only could not distinguish red from green - and all planes have cockpit lights that are in red & green!), he could not become a pilot like he dreamed of. He did become a mechanic and worked on the planes, and the B-46 was his favorite. He never got to see the fighting, much to his disappointment, as when he finally got orders to go overseas, their ship never left dock, as the war was over and they pulled the men back off the ship. A great disappointment for him.
After the war, he returned to Lometa and gathered up his wife and 2 year old daughter (me), and they left to live in Dallas, so he could work for Vought Aeronautics (again, a place that made airplanes, his love). He worked for them for many years, then changed jobs to work for Fritz W. Glitch & sons, a steel manufacturing plant, where he was Foreman. He retired from Glitch, and not one to be idle, he went to work with a friend, surveying.
Dad loved to hunt, fish, golf, and dance. We spent one or more weekends a month traveling back down to Lometa where both his mother and my mom's parents lived. There was always family to hunt and fish with, with lively Canasta Games played after dinner. He spent a lot of time with his brothers, as we are a very close family. He was a great dad, and a very honest and true man. He had a wonderful sense of humor and loved his family deeply.
Leonard and Lou had 3 children: Lynda Lou "Lyn" Duncan; Douglas Gerald "Doug" Duncan; Stacey Michelle "Mich" Duncan; 2 grandchildren: Matt Meinke and wife, Amy Toole of Commerce, Tx.; Meghan Michelle Smith and husband Chris Leach of Illinois; and 4 gr-grandchildren, Tristin, Cheyenne Lou, Kaden, and Devin Leach.
He died in Arlington, Texas at the Arlington Memorial Hospital of heart failure, at the age of 80 years old.
His request was to be cremated and his ashes spread at his favorite Deer Camp in Lometa, Lampasas County, Texas, which the entire family did, after 2 memorial services. One service in Grand Prairie, Texas at the Baptist Church near his home, and the other in Lometa, Texas at the Methodist Church. There are no physical markers where his ashes are strewn.
