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                                                  School at      COVID on December 19, 2020. We had been married for
                                                  Texas Tech     54 years. I miss her every day.” Bob has continued to meet
                                                  for drafting.   with the “Market Street Geezers” every Monday at the
                                                  (Drafting      United Market Street on 50th St. and Indiana Ave. When he
                                                  was one class   first started going, “Some of the older WWII and Korean
                                                  I’d enjoyed in   War veterans were still attending, like Andy Winnegar,
                                                  high school.)   Bunk Solomon, C.L. Lewis, and others. We’ve got some
                                                  I worked for   younger guys now, but a couple of Korean War guys still
                                                  Hicks and      come. We all went through some of the same things in
                                                  Ragland        the service. One young vet told me, ‘Having been in the
               Bob and Nancy Stoll                as an          military is like being in a bubble, and only military guys can
                                                  apprentice     understand. It doesn’t matter what your job was, or where
             for 3 and1/2 years. An engineer moved to Abilene, and   you were stationed, we all took the risk.’ I’ve always liked
             I went to work with his architect. We lived there for 12   that quote.”
             years, and I had my own firm for a while. We came back to
             Lubbock in 1990, and I joined Berwyn Tisdel & Associates   Bob Stoll, Jr. is like his dad in that he followed his footsteps
             until Tisdel retired, then I joined Parkhill, Smith & Cooper   in the service of his country. Not many sons get to follow
             in 2001. They ‘retired’ me in 2010.                 them to the exact same real estate. But all the fathers, sons,
                                                                 mothers, and daughters who raise their right hand and
             “Nancy and I have three children: Shannon, Amber and   pledge to defend us deserve our undying gratitude and
             Nic, and six grandchildren. Nancy passed away from   respect.









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