Gordon Lee SCHMALZ

   Another name for Gordon is Gordon Lee SMALL.

  General Notes:

Gordon joined the Navy in 1965 and then moved to Dallas, Texas in 1969 where he worked for Texas Instruments as an engineering technician and computer programmer until retiring in 2003. Gordon and Lark then moved to Morgantown, Kentucky.

  Noted events in his life were:

• He resided at 8322 Bancroft in Cleveland, Ohio.
Herman & Marion purchased the home in 1941 and lived there with their children, Robert, Mary and Gordon until they moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1947. Their phone number was MI6922. As was the custom in those days, the first two digits of a phone number were alphabetical and the MI in this case stood for "Michigan".

• He resided at 2919 N. Cherry Ave. in Tucson, Arizona.
Herman & Marion purchased this home in 1947 and lived there with their children, Robert, Mary, Gordon, Carol and Richard. They sold the house in the late 1960s and purchased another house in Tucson on Princeton Pl. The phone number on Cherry Avenue was 61651 when they moved in in 1947. When the phone company needed more numbers they went from the 5 digit number to a seven digit number and the new number was MA61651. As was the custom in those days, the first two digits of a phone number were alphabetical and the MA in this case stood for "Main".

• His name was changed. The Herman SCHMALZ family name was changed from SCHMALZ to SMALL on March 12, 1948 in Pima County, Arizona. View Image

• He was employed as an Engineering Technician by Texas Instruments on April 16, 1969 in Dallas Texas. He retired from TI in 2003 as a computer programmer. His last assignment was to the Test Technology Group supporting VLSI Test systems. Click here to view his letter of the job offer he received on April 8, 1969.

Gordon married Marion Gail FITZPATRICK, daughter of James Irwin FITZPATRICK and Annette Erma SAUERWEIN, on April 16, 1966 in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, USA.¹ (Marion Gail FITZPATRICK was born on December 10, 1946 in Fort Knox, Kentucky.)

Gordon next married Teena Justine MIKLAUCIC on January 5, 1990 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA.^{2 3} (Teena Justine MIKLAUCIC was born on January 20, 1946 and died on April 12, 2005 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA ^{5 6}.)

Gordon next married Lark Louise LUKE on March 17, 2001 in The Colony, Denton, Texas, USA.⁴ (Lark Louise LUKE was born on August 22, 1947 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois, USA.)