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Dear Tory, In regards to your letter in the [Nov.] OEC Newsletter, I found


it very interesting. As I read "Oklahoma Electric Co-op is turning 75-years old," this brought back a lot of memories. I am the second daughter born to Leisel and Emily Vaught. Our family lived in Norman on Robinson Street just across the road from the airport and on the land that is now the Westwood Golf Course. We lived on a farm, ran a Grade A Dairy for many years and my dad


did custom hay baling and farming for other farmers so we learned really quick what it meant to work on the farm. In about 1947, our family moved to a farm 3 1/2 miles east of


Slaughterville on the south side of the road. They continued living there as long as they lived. Dad passed away in 1976 and Mother passed in 2004. When our family moved there it was a very old frame house and not [in] too good condition. We did not have running water in the house and we had no electricity. Our only source of electricity was a wind charger. If the wind did not blow, we had no electric. That meant when we got home from school, we had to do our homework before it got dark. In later years, we did get running water in the house but that was some time later and I really don't remember the date. For a long time we had no phone. When we did get a phone it was a


party line and you had to dial two rings and 1 ring or whatever your  was with OEC so we have a pretty long history with you. 


school bus and I saw a really tall antenna above our house and I knew it had to be a TV. Boy, what a treat that was. There was a rule around the house and that was "get your homework done and get all the chores done before you watch TV." All this to say . . . I can never think of a time that we


have been disappointed with OEC service. Yes, we did have times when our electricity was out for several days mostly because of the ice storms but I thought they got it back on in record time considering all they had to do. I always felt sorry for the guys who had to go out in all the freezing cold weather and electrical storms, but yet they did it and I never heard them complain. To them it was their job, and they did it well. Thank you OEC for all the years that you have furnished


us [with] electricity and for a job well done. Thank you Tory for all your newsletters and for the great job you do.


Sincerely, Barbra Vaught Drinen Lexington, Oklahoma


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