windeewon

Which Parker are you related to? My Papa, Lee Falk, worked for Parker Brothers for 50 years. I was too young to remember the Tugboat Captains, but I did know WR and my husband drove a mixer from about ‘70 to ‘79 and then was a diesel mechanic until about mid ‘80’s. He worked with Tim for awhile. I remember the news of the Captains being killed in the plane crash, but wasn’t aware of much more than that. Papa was hired in about 1935, I think. My Uncle Ben worked there too, but he passed in ‘60. My Papa ran dragline all over the channel, I remember him saying he did most of the dredging of Brady Island. He ended up helping Parkers build the asphalt plant on Navigation. Before that he was all over this end of Texas, from Eagle Lake to Orange and Port Arthur. He was actually on a barge working when my brother was born. I think I may have pictures of the monster machine my Papa went to FL to load on flat cars to ship to Eagle Lake. They shipped it in pieces and reassembled it here in Texas. My Papa and Uncle Ben bought two draglines and leased them to Parker Brothers, so I got to learn more than a gal usually gets to. I remember helping Papa rebuild pistons for one of the two draglines, pulling rings off and putting new ones on. There were several employees that were friends with Papa that I met and knew because we had backyard BBQs.