Person:Andrew Calvert (1)

Andrew was next to the youngest son of Jack and Mabel Calvert. He graduated from North Side High School in Ft. Worth . He worked for a while with his dad at General American Tank Car Company and then had a paper route that covered small towns in North Texas. He and Dorothy met through mutual friends and married while on one of his paper routes . They were married during the depression and jobs were scarce. He told the story of going to interview for a job open ing and there were 50 men for each position. He noticed that all the ones that they picked to work had a wave in their hair so he went home and asked Dorothy to wave his hair. The next day with his wave, he got picked. He worked for the WPA and

Agee Screen Company as a woodworker. They lived for a while with his parents on a farm near Reno, Texas eating "raw peanuts" for lunch since they had nothing else. Dorothy's father gave them a little pig and they raised it. When they butchered it evidently something went wrong in the preservation because all the meat spoiled which was a great

disappointment to them. When WW II broke out he went to work for North American Aviation Company in Grand Pr airie as a tool and die maker. The family had owned a small house on E. Cantey Street in Ft. Worth but sold it and moved to Grand Prairie. He stayed with that company until 1945 when the war was over. He later owned his own service station and repaired cars since he was a good mechanic. He worked in various aircraft factories in Ft. Worth and then in Connecticut, Tennessee and California finally moving to California in 1961 to work for Lockheed. He was transferred for a short time to Marietta, GA and then back to San Jose, California. He sold real estate for American Realty for several years successfully. He developed cancer and had radical neck surgery in 1973 and it reoccurred in Oct 1978 in both his lungs and brain. He died in March 1979. He was 5 '9" tall with blond hair and very blue eyes. He was a smoker all his life, loved to hunt and fish and camp. He built his own little boat and called it the "Dorothy Ann." After he moved to California he loved to go to Monterey Bay , CA so when he died he was cremated and his ashes scattered on Monterey Bay.