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Senior Senior
Bobbie Loflin

Country

Girl

by Kyle Shipp

obbie Lee Loflin of Clovis, culture, and traditions of Mexico. has a successful career at Fort Knox,
New Mexico, has profoundly Though poverty inhibited the growth Kentucky. Wayde, also working for the
Bimpacted the way I see the of many areas in the country, she was military, is the Chief Financial Officer
world. Born and raised on the Eastern able to manipulate this experience for the Department of the Air Force
Central grasslands of New Mexico, she in her mind. She has cherished this at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma
was well-acquainted with the serene experience all her life, and she applied City. Bobbie’s motherly spirit and
lifestyle of a country girl. However, this outlook onto the land that most nurturing guidance launched these
Bobbie’s life experiences, unlike Americans take for granted. She came young men on their journey to success.
the boring plains, were culturally back to New Mexico
invigorating, socially rejuvenating, and with a deeper Although Loflin
highly impacting on her observations, understanding of the divorced Earl, she
experiences, environment, and the importance of tradition remained persevering
effects that friends and family have had and culture. Looking at and sought to play
on her life. her hometown, Loflin a role in Mark’s
saw the beauty, rich and Wayde’s lives
As a teenager, Loflin enjoyed popular cultures, and history during their college
pastimes that many Clovis natives behind the monotonous careers. Then, her
continue today: dragging Main Street flatlands. life took a sharp
and spending time with friends. turn. After losing her
With a lineup of antique hot rods A 1962 Clovis High mother, father, and
and peculiar vehicles, Main Street in School graduate, Loflin, aunt within a brief
Clovis, New Mexico was the place to sought out a career as time period, she was
experience on hot, midsummer days. a secretary and worked devastated. However,
When I prompted Bobbie to describe for the Southwestern as an evergreen tree
some memories that had impacted Public Service Electric maintains its color
her life, she began a brief but colorful Company from 1977 to even throughout the
depiction of a trip she took in high 1993. She married Earl harshest winters, so
school. Riding a passenger train, for Loflin and had two sons, Mark and Bobbie maintained her spirit during
the first time, from Juarez to Mexico Wayde. Bobbie watched her sons grow tribulations. She waited patiently,
City, Mexico, Bobbie submerged to be high-achieving men with fruitful acknowledging that these wonderful
herself in the history, language, lives. Mark, working on computers, family members were blessings placed

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