Carl Buel Edington
Brother Carl Buel Edington was born to Joseph Dyer and Ida Iola (Nations) Edington on August 7, 1920 at Burkett, Coleman County, Texas. He was the fourth child, having two brothers, Cleo and Raymond (Hick) Edington and one sister, Lucille Edington Barr. Mr. Edington started school at Burkett in 1927. He transferred to Comal Schools in 1930. He moved to Victoria School in 1934 where he attended until they consolidated with Cross Plains Schools in 1936 at which time the Edingtons purchased and moved onto a ranch south of Coleman, near the town of Fisk.
Carl
married Dorothy Johnson on a Saturday evening at the Methodist Parsonage at
Cross Plains, Texas on May 13, 1939. Carl
accepted an oil field pumping job near Santa Anna, Texas where they lived on the
Bartholomew Ranch where their first child Linda Jean was born.
In November 1940 they moved Bisbee, AZ where their son Donald Carl was
born on August 24, 1942. Carl
worked in copper mining until January 1946 when labor unions organized within
the copper mining industries. They
then returned to Cross Plains and then Petrolia, Texas where Dean Brothers
employed him on an oil field water flood project.
Carl
was inducted into the U. S. Army at Ft. Sill, OK in May of 1946 and was
stationed at Ft. Custer, MI. He
served as a Military Police Officer until December 20, 1946 when he was
discharged at Ft. Sam Houston, TX.
Carl
returned to Cross Plains to join his family and accepted a pumping position with
West Central Texas Drilling at Stith, Jones Co., Texas.
In June of 1951 he was transferred to Abilene where he began his
Petroleum Engineering Consulting business.
In July 1954 he went into the same business with James E. Russell, which
he continued until retirement in 1979. During
this time, Carl completed his high school GED, attended night school at McMurry
and Texas Tech Universities. He
received a Petroleum Geology Engineering degree from Texas-Tech in 1969.
Due
to their oil interest and the purchase of an oilfield research company the
Edingtons owned homes in both Abilene, TX, and Chanute, KS for some seventeen
years. They built a retirement home
in Granbury, TX in 1980. It was
there that Dorothy, his wife of 52 years, died from cancer on January 14, 1991.
She is buried at Dressy Cemetery in Dressy, TX.
Brother Edington was initiated as an Entered Apprentice Mason on May 4, 1946 at
Hodges (Stith Lodge No. 907), between Abilene and Anson.
He was passed to Fellow craft on June 6th and raised to Master Mason on
July 4th, of the same year. Stith Lodge later merged with Merkel Lodge No. 710 where
Carl is a Past Master (1948-49) and
50+ year member. He became a York
Rite Mason in about 1949 and
a member of Cross Plains Lodge No. 627 in 1999.