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Robertson “farmed for 15 years and then went to work
in the petrochemical business in Jal, New Mexico.
I helped put in a 40” gas line to El Paso, worked in
Borger and then up and down the Texas coast as a
pipefitter for Halliburton and others.” After retiring,
he moved to Choke Canyon Reservoir in Three Rivers,
Texas where he loved to fish.
Max divorced and then married two more times
during his life. He adopted the three children of
his second wife, Nannie Mae. Max moved back to
Lubbock several years ago to spend time with his
elderly mother.

When asked how he’d like to be remembered, he said,
“I tried to treat everybody right and expected to be
Max went on the 2014 Texas South Plains treated right.” His accounts of the tragic hurricane
Honor Flight with his son Max as his at sea are still riveting reminders of the extraneous
guardian. His favorite stop was the hazards American soldiers and sailors faced in the
changing of the guard at the Tomb of the years of WWII.
Unknown Soldier.

coconut tree to get me one.” On another island, “The
men were told not to even light a cigarette due to a
blackout in effect, because Japanese bombers were
flying overhead.”

“It took us 17 days to sail from Guam back to San
Diego (after the war was over). I was sent back to the
destroyer base for training I already had. I was offered
a raise in rank but declined and rode the battleship
Texas to San
Pedro, California
for discharge.”
Max took a train
to Clovis, New
Mexico, then
hitchhiked to
Shallowater,
where he “carried
his duffel bag all
the way to Slide
Road.” He later
met and married
Virginia Mote
and settled into
farming near
Lorenzo. They
had one son,
Max. The elder

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