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I was the first born child of Worthy
Eldred Burris and Edith Ethelyn (Headley) Burris.
Born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on the 15th of March
1944. World War II was still filling the headlines
of newspapers around the world.
I attended primary schools in Kansas,
Texas and New Mexico. I went to the 6th and 7th
grades in a one room country school, District 70,
located about 10 miles north of Eureka, Greenwood
County, Kansas.
I married Linda Lou Brumback and we
have two children, Michael Scott and Ashley Michele.
I joined the United States Navy and
served six years. I spent a year in school becoming
an electronics technician, two years at the Oceana
Naval Air Station in Virginia and three years in
Rota, Spain.
I was honorably discharged with the rank of First
Class Petty Officer.
After the military I began work for
Applied Automation, Inc. and moved to Stavanger,
Norway for three years working offshore on the Phillips
Ekofisk complex as Computer Maintenance Supervisor.
I returned to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and became
Senior Field Service Representative in the Customer
Services group and traveled extensively troubleshooting
and starting up gas chromatography systems.
I transfered to Phillips Petroleum
Company in Sweeny, Texas, and worked there eleven
years as Analytical Instrument Supervisor.
In 1990 I resigned from Phillips and
accepted a position with Bechtel Corporation as
Senior Engineer and was assigned to a field site
working with Shell Oil Company in Wood River, Illinois.
I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for five years while
at Shell.
I was asked to cover for the Control
Systems Engineering Supervisor in the Bechtel Chicago
office while he was recovering from an automobile
accident. And, after a few months of commuting to
Chicago from St. Louis, I transfered to the Bechtel
Houston, Texas, office to work in the Multi-Project
Acquisition Group (MPAG).
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