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Kenneth Eugene Shirey was working for Carroll Leslie Hoyt at Hoyt Oil Company in the 1940's and early 1950's. The company later became H and S (Hoyt and Shirey) Oil drilling Company as Kenneth Eugene Shirey worked his way up in the company. Note in the pictures attached to Kenneth Eugene Shirey's page there is a picture of a mechanical pencil with the name H and S Drilling - Hoyt and Shirey printed on it. Carroll Leslie Hoyt's son, John Carroll Hoyt, started working at the company in 1952, and the company's name returned to the name of Hoyt Oil Company. By 1957 the company was turned over to the son John Carroll Hoyt, Kenneth was given a less important job and quit soon there after. He never regained his work prowess and started drinking heavily. He and Elizabeth Jean Shira Shirey were divorced in 1963.
Wise and Shirey Families Back Row, Left to Right: Mingeon Emma May Stiek Toombs Wise, John J. Wise Jr., David Frank Harmon, Unknown, Unknown, Harriet (Hattie) May Wise Harmon, Maude Catherine Wise Shirey, Clifford DeSoto Shirey and Kenneth Eugene Shirey. Front Row, Left to Right, Unknown, Unknown, and Leah Maxine Shirey.
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Shira Family, their home in background Thomas Plummer Shira; Kenneth Eugene Shirey; Unknown; Robert Bruce Shira; Samuel Franklin Shira and wife, Gladys Dorothy Reid Shira; their daughter Dorothy Elizabeth Shira; sitting, Elizabeth Jean Shira Shirey; and kneeling, Donald Brown Shira. Please contact the site manager at ssmims63@msn.com if you can identify any of the unknown people.
Wise and Shirey Families L to R: John J. Wise Jr., Susie May Shirey holding Kenneth Eugene Shirey, Maude Catherine Wise Shirey, Mingeon Emma May Stiek Toombs Wise, Gwendolyn Ellen Shirey, and Elmer Ellsworth (Dutch) Shirey, Jr..
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