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Webb’s two years of active duty, he joined the Army manager until 1972. I worked for a while in the hotel
Reserve and was officially discharged on November industry, and my last job was in 2018.”
16, 1956.
Joe’s wife, Peggy, passed away in 2005. In 2006,
Back home in Pampa, Joe went back to work at the he met Betty Brown at a senior’s dance. They have
bowling alley. “I bought a used 1950 Ford. I had been a couple for nearly 15 years. Joe always
met Peggy Allen before I went into the service. We loved singing in church, and, even at almost 90, he
started dating and going to her church, and were continues to do so.
married on August 16th, 1953. In 1954, we moved
to Amarillo, where I managed a bowling alley. We Maybe Joe Webb didn’t stay at any one job for
stayed there about two years and moved to McLean, very long, but he worked hard his whole life. He
where I worked in a grocery store. Then, we moved just proved that he was capable of lots of different
to Plainview, and I attended Wayland Baptist things, not least of which was risking his life on the
College. (I had received my G.E.D. while I was in the dangerous 38th Parallel on behalf of his own country
service.) I worked several part-time jobs like slinging and a fledgling democracy a long way from Pampa.
hamburgers with Jimmy Dean’s brother, Don, and
stocking and checking at White’s Grocery Store and
at Piggly Wiggly. Peg and I had three children:
Danny, Dendy and Donna.”
In 1956, Joe was hired at the first ever United
Supermarket in Lubbock. “The first store was
on 34th Street. I also worked at other locations,
including the ones on 50th and Ave. Q and on 50th
and Slide Road.

“In 1958, I
moved the
family to
Albuquerque
where I
worked as an
independent
window
cleaner and
did janitorial
work. We
moved back
to Lubbock
in 1963, and
I went back
to work for
United. I
worked there
as an assistant

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