By Helen K. Lowery

Eagle Mountain Circle. My family moved to this home outside of Fort Worth, Texas when I was almost three years old. I have no memory of any other home. My Dad and his friend Gene built the two bedroom, one bath on a little over an acre after Gene bought the property for himself and my Mom and Dad. My parents and Gene had been good friends since they were children. After my parents married in 1939, and Daddy and Gene returned from the Navy in 1945, there were some tough times for my Mom. Daddy and Gene must have spent every day for a year playing sand lot football and baseball and drinking themselves into drunken oblivion every night that year. I am not really certain who saved whom, but I know my Mother was a force with whom to reckon. I think she brought my Dad back from the dark side and he dragged Gene back by the coat tails. In repayment, the year of my birth, 1949, Gene bought approximately three acres and gave my parents a little over an acre of it on which to build their home in gratitude to my parents for saving his life.