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Retirees from 1950 - 1969
Ira Chester Frady
Employed: 1937
Retired: 1957
Years of Service: 20 Years
Died: October 29, 2009 at age 95
One of the first 4 paid firefighters. ( The City hired 4 volunteers to be paid in 1939)
Also spent some time as a motorcycle cop for the Odessa Police Department.
His daughter Claudette Frady married Roy Orbison.
Clarence H. Stevenson
Employed: September 20, 1927
Retired: August 20, 1958
Years of Service: 31 Years
Died: February 1, 1988
One of the first volunteer firefighters!
Kenneth W. Casey
Assistant Chief
Employed: May 7, 1949
Resigned: November 5, 1958
Years of Service: 9 Years 6 Months
Died: November 30, 1983 at age 62
United States Army WWII Veteran
Ona B. Laird
Employed: March 15, 1928
Retired: July 31, 1960
Years of Service: 32 Years 4 Months
Died: May 16, 1986
One of the first volunteer firefighters!
Charlie Meadows
Fire Chief
Employed: January 16, 1944
Retired: April 1, 1962
Years of Service: 18 Years
Died: April 22, 1997
L. L. Withrow
Fire Marshal
Employed: November 10, 1947
Resigned: January 8, 1963
Years of Service: 15 Years 10 Months
Died: November 16, 1997
Charles V. Coppage
Employed: February 2, 1948
Resigned: August 19, 1964
Years of Service: 16 Years 6 Months
Died: January 7, 2000
Boyd Brown
Employed: April 11, 1955
Resigned: May 1, 1965
Years of Service: 10 Years 1 Months
Died: January 1, 1976
Troy Blancett
Employed: November 9, 1953
Resigned: December 1, 1965
Years of Service: 12 Years 1 Month
Died: October 1, 1990
William Rutledge #35
Fire Marshal & Assistant Fire Chief
Employed: September 30, 1947
Retired: April 15, 1968
Years of Service: 20 Years 7 Months
Died: August 25, 2017 at age 96
Retired United States Marine Corps Major
Combat Veteran of WWII (Marine Lt. at Iwo Jima)