Haskell Dodd and Audie Beda Luttrell
Haskell Dodd was born January 31, 1907, in Star, Haskell County, in the Choctaw Nation of the Indian Territory (now Haskell County, Oklahoma) to John Huston Dodd and Mary Ellen Buckner Dodd (1,2,3). It was not uncommon at the time for a family to name their first-born child after the locality into which they had just moved. Such was the case with John and Ellen Dodd who had recently moved from Arkansas to Haskell County. Actually, they named their son Thomas Haskell Dodd but he disliked the name Thomas and dropped it from his name as a young adult (4). He was called "Hack" by many of his friends and co-workers.
In 1913, when he was six years old, his parents moved south of the Kiamichi Mountains to McCurtain County, Oklahoma, and helped settle the Holly Creek community (4,5,16). His uncle, Tom Buckner, and his family moved at the same time. In 1922 his family moved to a farm just outside the nearby town of Broken Bow where he graduated from high school. In addition to being an avid baseball player he was the poet laureate of the class of 1927 and wrote the class poem "Awake" (4,6).
He had six brothers and three sisters. Two of the brothers and one of the sisters died while infants. His oldest brother, John Sampel Dodd, was killed in action about a mile north of Cunel, France, on the edge of the Argonne forest, on October 28, 1918 (2,28). Germany signed the armistice which ended World War One on November 11, 1918, just two weeks after John's death. John was first buried in a small cemetery near Cunel, then in the American military cemetery at Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France, and finally in the Arlington National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia (4,28,29).
Audie Luttrell was born November 9, 1903, in Gillham, Sevier County, Arkansas, to William R Luttrell and Birdie Evelyn Johnson Luttrell (7). She started school in Gillham at the age of four (8). The family was on the 1910 Gillham census where her father's occupation was stated as night watchman for an oil company (9).
In late 1910, when she was six or seven, her parents moved from Gillham to Idabel in McCurtain County, Oklahoma (8). The family moved to Broken Bow in 1915, and then to Eagletown in 1916 where she finished high school in 1920 (5,8,17). The 1920 census shows her father to be a farmer (31). In late 1920, at the age of 17, she began to teach school at nearby Willow Springs using a temporary teaching certificate, earning her permanent teacher's certificate in 1923 (8,10,11). She had attended Southeastern State Teacher's College at Durant during the summers (12).
She taught school until her marriage to Herschel Brock. They were married at Clebit in McCurtain County on January 9, 1927 (13). They had one son, Ollie Gene Brock, who was born March 27, 1929 (14). However, the couple soon separated. The 1930 McCurtain County census shows Audie to be in her father's household (32).
Audie married Haskell in Idabel on December 10, 1933 (18). They had one son, H L (Dutch) Dodd, who was born on January 2, 1935, and an unnamed daughter who was born on October 29, 1935, and who died the next day (14).
Haskell and Audie married during the deepest part of the Great Depression which had begun in 1929 and lasted until the entry of the United States into World War Two. Life was difficult, but through hard work they were able to provide for their family's necessities.
Haskell's nephew, Paul Dodd, recalled, in notes written in 1998, a visit from Haskell and Audie. He wrote "Haskell and Audie came to my house one time in a new 1934 or 1936 Ford sedan. They took us up to the mountains and parked. Haskell turned on the radio with music. To hear music from a car parked in the middle of nowhere was magic to me. It was my first time to be in a car with a radio" (24).
Haskell and Audie had lived part of their early lives on a farm where light was obtained from kerosene lamps, water from a well outside the house, there was no indoor plumbing, and transportation was by horseback or wagon. Both came from relatively large families; he from a family of ten children where three died as infants and she from a family of six children where two died as infants (2,14). They made the transition from farm life to an urban life where he was employed in a technologically advanced industry.
Haskell's employment history reflects the transition:
1. After his graduation from high school in May of 1927, he worked for Elmo Wreyford as a truck driver in Broken Bow (25)
2. From late 1928 until June 1929, he worked for the Oklahoma Pipeline Company, laying pipe and making emergency repairs for a pipeline being built from DeQueen, Arkansas, to Ardmore, Oklahoma. Later he worked near Seminole, Oklahoma, laying flow lines to oil wells. He was laid off in June 1929 due to the depression and returned to Broken Bow (25).
3. Beginning in July 1929, he worked as parts manager for Broken Bow Motor Company, the local Chevrolet dealer, and later ran a Mobil service station which the Chevrolet dealer owned. This continued until December 1932 (25,32).
4. During the early part of 1933 he began work as a firefighter for the United States Forest Service, living at Nashoba in nearby Pushmataha County. This was dangerous and arduous work which often involved a long and difficult hike into the mountains, fighting the fire, and then another long walk out. It would often take several days to complete the round trip (4).
5. In May 1934, he began work for the Forest Service as a Technical Foreman supervising Civilian Conservation Corps projects in McCurtain and Pushmataha Counties in the Ouachita Mountains. He and his family moved as his work dictated, moving back to Broken Bow by 1935 where his son was born, then again to Nashoba in 1937, to Eagletown in 1938, again to Broken Bow in 1939, to Smithville in 1940, and back to Broken Bow in 1941 (4,25). In September 1941 the CCC program came to an end. He was proud of the work which his crews did in building roads and facilities for the state park system in southeastern Oklahoma. Many remain in service.
6. He worked briefly as foreman for a company clearing right-of-way for highways (4,15).
7. He completed the National Defense School at Oklahoma A & M, attending from March 16, 1942, until May 23, 1942, preparing himself for work in the defense industry. He was trained in sheet metal assembly and jig building (30).
8. After completion of the course, he applied to Douglas Aircraft in Tulsa and to DuPont at Choteau for employment without success (26).
9. In July of 1942 the family moved to Dallas, Texas, where he began work for North American Aviation. In October of the same year the family moved to Grand Prairie where they would remain. He worked for North American until August 1945, when he was laid off due to the end of the war and the reduction in defense spending. He had worked as an assembler and later as a jig builder (4).
10. He then worked as an assembler at Globe Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth from August 1945 until November 1946 when he was again laid off due to a reduction in force (4).
11. From November 1946, until April 1949, he worked as an assembler at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth (27). As at Globe Aircraft, he commuted to work from Grand Prairie (4).
12. He returned to Grand Prairie beginning in April 1949, working again as a jig builder. He worked at Chance-Vought Corporation (which became LTV Corporation) until his retirement in 1972. Audie worked for a time in a department store in Grand Prairie (4,15,19).
On an application for work with the United States Civil Service Commission which was completed May 24, 1941, he listed his height as 5'7" and his weight as 155 pounds (25). On an application completed at the age of thirty-five 1942, he listed his height as 5'7", his weight as 148 pounds, with black hair and grey eyes (20). On her 1944 Texas driver's license, Audie Dodd listed her height as 5'3", her weight as 135 pounds, and having black hair and grey eyes (21).
Both Haskell and Audie were raised as Methodists and remained in the Methodist Church. Haskell served for many years as the Men's Bible Class song leader. As were his father and grandfather before him he was a longtime member of the Masonic Lodge, being a 32nd Degree Mason and receiving a fifty-year seniority certificate in 1996. After retiring, he was active in the Golden Age Club where he was recognized as an Outstanding Older Texan (19). Audie Dodd wrote in 1984 that her biggest achievement was educating her sons. In her notes she also mentioned that, after his retirement, she and Haskell had several enjoyable trips to the Rocky Mountains and to the Smoky Mountains. She noted that they were always interested in politics and always voted (8).
Although both were long-time residents of Texas their hearts remained in the small town of Broken Bow near the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. They had planned to return there after the war but somehow the opportunity never arose (19). Audie Beda Dodd died on August 3, 1996, after a short illness (19,23). Haskell Dodd died on March 27, 1999 (19,22). Both are buried in the Southland Memorial Park on SW 3rd Street in Grand Prairie (19).
References cited:
(1) Haskell Dodd birth certificate, Oklahoma State Health Department.
(2) John H Dodd family Bible with names, birth dates, marriages, and death dates of children.
(3) 1910 Haskell Co, OK, Family 159: John H Dodd family.
(4) Recollections of Haskell Dodd.
(5) 1920 McCurtain Co, OK census, Family 146: William R Luttrell ,and Family 379: John H Dodd.
(6) Graduation Program, Broken Bow High School, Class of 1927.
(7) Audie Beda Luttrell birth certificate.
(8) Recollections and notes of Audie Luttrell Dodd.
(9) 1910 Sevier Co, AR, census, Family 179: W R Luttrell.
(10) Temporary Teacher's Certificate, McCurtain Co, OK, dated Dec 4, 1920.
(11) Oklahoma Teacher's Certificate, dated Oct 27, 1923.
(12) Southeastern State Teacher's College statement of credits: Audie Luttrell.
(13) Marriage License dated Jan 9, 1927: Audie Luttrell to Herschel Brock.
(14) William R Luttrell family Bible with birth dates of children and grandchildren.
(15) Recollections of Ollie Brock.
(16) 1920 school census: Holly Creek OK: J H Dodd family.
(17) 1920 school census: Eagletown OK: W R Luttrell family.
(18) Marriage License dated Dec 10, 1933: Haskell Dodd to Audie Luttrell Brock.
(19) Recollections of H L Dodd.
(20) 1942 Haskell Dodd job application.
(21) 1944 Audie Dodd Texas driver's license.
(22) Death certificate: Haskell Dodd.
(23) Death certificate: Audie Beda Dodd.
(24) Paul Dodd family notes, Dec 27, 1998.
(25) Personnel Information Sheet, attachment to job application, US Civil Service Comm, May 24, 1941.
(26) Letter from Haskell Dodd to Congressman Wilburn Cartwright, dated June 28, 1942.
(27) Service record, Haskell Dodd, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.
(28) Letter dated Feb 12, 1919, from 1st Sgt Howard R Wynn, 358th Machine Gun Company, regarding the death of Sampel Dodd and Jesse Hutchinson.
(29) Graves Registration Service notification regarding the burial of Sampel Dodd in France.
(30) Training Report, National Defense Industrial Training Program, Oklahoma A & M College.
(31) 1920 McCurtain Co, OK, census, ED 134, Sheet 8: William R Luttrell family.
(32) 1930 McCurtain Co, OK, census, ED 1, Sheet 5B: William R Luttrell family; ED 3, Sheet 16B: John H Dodd family.
H L Dodd
June 6, 2001
Haskell Dodd was born January 31, 1907, in Star, Haskell County, in the Choctaw Nation of the Indian Territory (now Haskell County, Oklahoma) to John Huston Dodd and Mary Ellen Buckner Dodd (1,2,3). It was not uncommon at the time for a family to name their first-born child after the locality into which they had just moved. Such was the case with John and Ellen Dodd who had recently moved from Arkansas to Haskell County. Actually, they named their son Thomas Haskell Dodd but he disliked the name Thomas and dropped it from his name as a young adult (4). He was called "Hack" by many of his friends and co-workers.
In 1913, when he was six years old, his parents moved south of the Kiamichi Mountains to McCurtain County, Oklahoma, and helped settle the Holly Creek community (4,5,16). His uncle, Tom Buckner, and his family moved at the same time. In 1922 his family moved to a farm just outside the nearby town of Broken Bow where he graduated from high school. In addition to being an avid baseball player he was the poet laureate of the class of 1927 and wrote the class poem "Awake" (4,6).
He had six brothers and three sisters. Two of the brothers and one of the sisters died while infants. His oldest brother, John Sampel Dodd, was killed in action about a mile north of Cunel, France, on the edge of the Argonne forest, on October 28, 1918 (2,28). Germany signed the armistice which ended World War One on November 11, 1918, just two weeks after John's death. John was first buried in a small cemetery near Cunel, then in the American military cemetery at Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France, and finally in the Arlington National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia (4,28,29).
Audie Luttrell was born November 9, 1903, in Gillham, Sevier County, Arkansas, to William R Luttrell and Birdie Evelyn Johnson Luttrell (7). She started school in Gillham at the age of four (8). The family was on the 1910 Gillham census where her father's occupation was stated as night watchman for an oil company (9).
In late 1910, when she was six or seven, her parents moved from Gillham to Idabel in McCurtain County, Oklahoma (8). The family moved to Broken Bow in 1915, and then to Eagletown in 1916 where she finished high school in 1920 (5,8,17). The 1920 census shows her father to be a farmer (31). In late 1920, at the age of 17, she began to teach school at nearby Willow Springs using a temporary teaching certificate, earning her permanent teacher's certificate in 1923 (8,10,11). She had attended Southeastern State Teacher's College at Durant during the summers (12).
She taught school until her marriage to Herschel Brock. They were married at Clebit in McCurtain County on January 9, 1927 (13). They had one son, Ollie Gene Brock, who was born March 27, 1929 (14). However, the couple soon separated. The 1930 McCurtain County census shows Audie to be in her father's household (32).
Audie married Haskell in Idabel on December 10, 1933 (18). They had one son, H L (Dutch) Dodd, who was born on January 2, 1935, and an unnamed daughter who was born on October 29, 1935, and who died the next day (14).
Haskell and Audie married during the deepest part of the Great Depression which had begun in 1929 and lasted until the entry of the United States into World War Two. Life was difficult, but through hard work they were able to provide for their family's necessities.
Haskell's nephew, Paul Dodd, recalled, in notes written in 1998, a visit from Haskell and Audie. He wrote "Haskell and Audie came to my house one time in a new 1934 or 1936 Ford sedan. They took us up to the mountains and parked. Haskell turned on the radio with music. To hear music from a car parked in the middle of nowhere was magic to me. It was my first time to be in a car with a radio" (24).
Haskell and Audie had lived part of their early lives on a farm where light was obtained from kerosene lamps, water from a well outside the house, there was no indoor plumbing, and transportation was by horseback or wagon. Both came from relatively large families; he from a family of ten children where three died as infants and she from a family of six children where two died as infants (2,14). They made the transition from farm life to an urban life where he was employed in a technologically advanced industry.
Haskell's employment history reflects the transition:
1. After his graduation from high school in May of 1927, he worked for Elmo Wreyford as a truck driver in Broken Bow (25)
2. From late 1928 until June 1929, he worked for the Oklahoma Pipeline Company, laying pipe and making emergency repairs for a pipeline being built from DeQueen, Arkansas, to Ardmore, Oklahoma. Later he worked near Seminole, Oklahoma, laying flow lines to oil wells. He was laid off in June 1929 due to the depression and returned to Broken Bow (25).
3. Beginning in July 1929, he worked as parts manager for Broken Bow Motor Company, the local Chevrolet dealer, and later ran a Mobil service station which the Chevrolet dealer owned. This continued until December 1932 (25,32).
4. During the early part of 1933 he began work as a firefighter for the United States Forest Service, living at Nashoba in nearby Pushmataha County. This was dangerous and arduous work which often involved a long and difficult hike into the mountains, fighting the fire, and then another long walk out. It would often take several days to complete the round trip (4).
5. In May 1934, he began work for the Forest Service as a Technical Foreman supervising Civilian Conservation Corps projects in McCurtain and Pushmataha Counties in the Ouachita Mountains. He and his family moved as his work dictated, moving back to Broken Bow by 1935 where his son was born, then again to Nashoba in 1937, to Eagletown in 1938, again to Broken Bow in 1939, to Smithville in 1940, and back to Broken Bow in 1941 (4,25). In September 1941 the CCC program came to an end. He was proud of the work which his crews did in building roads and facilities for the state park system in southeastern Oklahoma. Many remain in service.
6. He worked briefly as foreman for a company clearing right-of-way for highways (4,15).
7. He completed the National Defense School at Oklahoma A & M, attending from March 16, 1942, until May 23, 1942, preparing himself for work in the defense industry. He was trained in sheet metal assembly and jig building (30).
8. After completion of the course, he applied to Douglas Aircraft in Tulsa and to DuPont at Choteau for employment without success (26).
9. In July of 1942 the family moved to Dallas, Texas, where he began work for North American Aviation. In October of the same year the family moved to Grand Prairie where they would remain. He worked for North American until August 1945, when he was laid off due to the end of the war and the reduction in defense spending. He had worked as an assembler and later as a jig builder (4).
10. He then worked as an assembler at Globe Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth from August 1945 until November 1946 when he was again laid off due to a reduction in force (4).
11. From November 1946, until April 1949, he worked as an assembler at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth (27). As at Globe Aircraft, he commuted to work from Grand Prairie (4).
12. He returned to Grand Prairie beginning in April 1949, working again as a jig builder. He worked at Chance-Vought Corporation (which became LTV Corporation) until his retirement in 1972. Audie worked for a time in a department store in Grand Prairie (4,15,19).
On an application for work with the United States Civil Service Commission which was completed May 24, 1941, he listed his height as 5'7" and his weight as 155 pounds (25). On an application completed at the age of thirty-five 1942, he listed his height as 5'7", his weight as 148 pounds, with black hair and grey eyes (20). On her 1944 Texas driver's license, Audie Dodd listed her height as 5'3", her weight as 135 pounds, and having black hair and grey eyes (21).
Both Haskell and Audie were raised as Methodists and remained in the Methodist Church. Haskell served for many years as the Men's Bible Class song leader. As were his father and grandfather before him he was a longtime member of the Masonic Lodge, being a 32nd Degree Mason and receiving a fifty-year seniority certificate in 1996. After retiring, he was active in the Golden Age Club where he was recognized as an Outstanding Older Texan (19). Audie Dodd wrote in 1984 that her biggest achievement was educating her sons. In her notes she also mentioned that, after his retirement, she and Haskell had several enjoyable trips to the Rocky Mountains and to the Smoky Mountains. She noted that they were always interested in politics and always voted (8).
Although both were long-time residents of Texas their hearts remained in the small town of Broken Bow near the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. They had planned to return there after the war but somehow the opportunity never arose (19). Audie Beda Dodd died on August 3, 1996, after a short illness (19,23). Haskell Dodd died on March 27, 1999 (19,22). Both are buried in the Southland Memorial Park on SW 3rd Street in Grand Prairie (19).
References cited:
(1) Haskell Dodd birth certificate, Oklahoma State Health Department.
(2) John H Dodd family Bible with names, birth dates, marriages, and death dates of children.
(3) 1910 Haskell Co, OK, Family 159: John H Dodd family.
(4) Recollections of Haskell Dodd.
(5) 1920 McCurtain Co, OK census, Family 146: William R Luttrell ,and Family 379: John H Dodd.
(6) Graduation Program, Broken Bow High School, Class of 1927.
(7) Audie Beda Luttrell birth certificate.
(8) Recollections and notes of Audie Luttrell Dodd.
(9) 1910 Sevier Co, AR, census, Family 179: W R Luttrell.
(10) Temporary Teacher's Certificate, McCurtain Co, OK, dated Dec 4, 1920.
(11) Oklahoma Teacher's Certificate, dated Oct 27, 1923.
(12) Southeastern State Teacher's College statement of credits: Audie Luttrell.
(13) Marriage License dated Jan 9, 1927: Audie Luttrell to Herschel Brock.
(14) William R Luttrell family Bible with birth dates of children and grandchildren.
(15) Recollections of Ollie Brock.
(16) 1920 school census: Holly Creek OK: J H Dodd family.
(17) 1920 school census: Eagletown OK: W R Luttrell family.
(18) Marriage License dated Dec 10, 1933: Haskell Dodd to Audie Luttrell Brock.
(19) Recollections of H L Dodd.
(20) 1942 Haskell Dodd job application.
(21) 1944 Audie Dodd Texas driver's license.
(22) Death certificate: Haskell Dodd.
(23) Death certificate: Audie Beda Dodd.
(24) Paul Dodd family notes, Dec 27, 1998.
(25) Personnel Information Sheet, attachment to job application, US Civil Service Comm, May 24, 1941.
(26) Letter from Haskell Dodd to Congressman Wilburn Cartwright, dated June 28, 1942.
(27) Service record, Haskell Dodd, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.
(28) Letter dated Feb 12, 1919, from 1st Sgt Howard R Wynn, 358th Machine Gun Company, regarding the death of Sampel Dodd and Jesse Hutchinson.
(29) Graves Registration Service notification regarding the burial of Sampel Dodd in France.
(30) Training Report, National Defense Industrial Training Program, Oklahoma A & M College.
(31) 1920 McCurtain Co, OK, census, ED 134, Sheet 8: William R Luttrell family.
(32) 1930 McCurtain Co, OK, census, ED 1, Sheet 5B: William R Luttrell family; ED 3, Sheet 16B: John H Dodd family.
H L Dodd
June 6, 2001
Haskell Dodd and Audie Beda Luttrell
Haskell Dodd was born January 31, 1907, in Star, Haskell County, in the Choctaw Nation of the Indian Territory (now Haskell County, Oklahoma) to John Huston Dodd and Mary Ellen Buckner Dodd (1,2,3). It was not uncommon at the time for a family to name their first-born child after the locality into which they had just moved. Such was the case with John and Ellen Dodd who had recently moved from Arkansas to Haskell County. Actually, they named their son Thomas Haskell Dodd but he disliked the name Thomas and dropped it from his name as a young adult (4). He was called "Hack" by many of his friends and co-workers.
In 1913, when he was six years old, his parents moved south of the Kiamichi Mountains to McCurtain County, Oklahoma, and helped settle the Holly Creek community (4,5,16). His uncle, Tom Buckner, and his family moved at the same time. In 1922 his family moved to a farm just outside the nearby town of Broken Bow where he graduated from high school. In addition to being an avid baseball player he was the poet laureate of the class of 1927 and wrote the class poem "Awake" (4,6).
He had six brothers and three sisters. Two of the brothers and one of the sisters died while infants. His oldest brother, John Sampel Dodd, was killed in action about a mile north of Cunel, France, on the edge of the Argonne forest, on October 28, 1918 (2,28). Germany signed the armistice which ended World War One on November 11, 1918, just two weeks after John's death. John was first buried in a small cemetery near Cunel, then in the American military cemetery at Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France, and finally in the Arlington National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia (4,28,29).
Audie Luttrell was born November 9, 1903, in Gillham, Sevier County, Arkansas, to William R Luttrell and Birdie Evelyn Johnson Luttrell (7). She started school in Gillham at the age of four (8). The family was on the 1910 Gillham census where her father's occupation was stated as night watchman for an oil company (9).
In late 1910, when she was six or seven, her parents moved from Gillham to Idabel in McCurtain County, Oklahoma (8). The family moved to Broken Bow in 1915, and then to Eagletown in 1916 where she finished high school in 1920 (5,8,17). The 1920 census shows her father to be a farmer (31). In late 1920, at the age of 17, she began to teach school at nearby Willow Springs using a temporary teaching certificate, earning her permanent teacher's certificate in 1923 (8,10,11). She had attended Southeastern State Teacher's College at Durant during the summers (12).
She taught school until her marriage to Herschel Brock. They were married at Clebit in McCurtain County on January 9, 1927 (13). They had one son, Ollie Gene Brock, who was born March 27, 1929 (14). However, the couple soon separated. The 1930 McCurtain County census shows Audie to be in her father's household (32).
Audie married Haskell in Idabel on December 10, 1933 (18). They had one son, H L (Dutch) Dodd, who was born on January 2, 1935, and an unnamed daughter who was born on October 29, 1935, and who died the next day (14).
Haskell and Audie married during the deepest part of the Great Depression which had begun in 1929 and lasted until the entry of the United States into World War Two. Life was difficult, but through hard work they were able to provide for their family's necessities.
Haskell's nephew, Paul Dodd, recalled, in notes written in 1998, a visit from Haskell and Audie. He wrote "Haskell and Audie came to my house one time in a new 1934 or 1936 Ford sedan. They took us up to the mountains and parked. Haskell turned on the radio with music. To hear music from a car parked in the middle of nowhere was magic to me. It was my first time to be in a car with a radio" (24).
Haskell and Audie had lived part of their early lives on a farm where light was obtained from kerosene lamps, water from a well outside the house, there was no indoor plumbing, and transportation was by horseback or wagon. Both came from relatively large families; he from a family of ten children where three died as infants and she from a family of six children where two died as infants (2,14). They made the transition from farm life to an urban life where he was employed in a technologically advanced industry.
Haskell's employment history reflects the transition:
1. After his graduation from high school in May of 1927, he worked for Elmo Wreyford as a truck driver in Broken Bow (25)
2. From late 1928 until June 1929, he worked for the Oklahoma Pipeline Company, laying pipe and making emergency repairs for a pipeline being built from DeQueen, Arkansas, to Ardmore, Oklahoma. Later he worked near Seminole, Oklahoma, laying flow lines to oil wells. He was laid off in June 1929 due to the depression and returned to Broken Bow (25).
3. Beginning in July 1929, he worked as parts manager for Broken Bow Motor Company, the local Chevrolet dealer, and later ran a Mobil service station which the Chevrolet dealer owned. This continued until December 1932 (25,32).
4. During the early part of 1933 he began work as a firefighter for the United States Forest Service, living at Nashoba in nearby Pushmataha County. This was dangerous and arduous work which often involved a long and difficult hike into the mountains, fighting the fire, and then another long walk out. It would often take several days to complete the round trip (4).
5. In May 1934, he began work for the Forest Service as a Technical Foreman supervising Civilian Conservation Corps projects in McCurtain and Pushmataha Counties in the Ouachita Mountains. He and his family moved as his work dictated, moving back to Broken Bow by 1935 where his son was born, then again to Nashoba in 1937, to Eagletown in 1938, again to Broken Bow in 1939, to Smithville in 1940, and back to Broken Bow in 1941 (4,25). In September 1941 the CCC program came to an end. He was proud of the work which his crews did in building roads and facilities for the state park system in southeastern Oklahoma. Many remain in service.
6. He worked briefly as foreman for a company clearing right-of-way for highways (4,15).
7. He completed the National Defense School at Oklahoma A & M, attending from March 16, 1942, until May 23, 1942, preparing himself for work in the defense industry. He was trained in sheet metal assembly and jig building (30).
8. After completion of the course, he applied to Douglas Aircraft in Tulsa and to DuPont at Choteau for employment without success (26).
9. In July of 1942 the family moved to Dallas, Texas, where he began work for North American Aviation. In October of the same year the family moved to Grand Prairie where they would remain. He worked for North American until August 1945, when he was laid off due to the end of the war and the reduction in defense spending. He had worked as an assembler and later as a jig builder (4).
10. He then worked as an assembler at Globe Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth from August 1945 until November 1946 when he was again laid off due to a reduction in force (4).
11. From November 1946, until April 1949, he worked as an assembler at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth (27). As at Globe Aircraft, he commuted to work from Grand Prairie (4).
12. He returned to Grand Prairie beginning in April 1949, working again as a jig builder. He worked at Chance-Vought Corporation (which became LTV Corporation) until his retirement in 1972. Audie worked for a time in a department store in Grand Prairie (4,15,19).
On an application for work with the United States Civil Service Commission which was completed May 24, 1941, he listed his height as 5'7" and his weight as 155 pounds (25). On an application completed at the age of thirty-five 1942, he listed his height as 5'7", his weight as 148 pounds, with black hair and grey eyes (20). On her 1944 Texas driver's license, Audie Dodd listed her height as 5'3", her weight as 135 pounds, and having black hair and grey eyes (21).
Both Haskell and Audie were raised as Methodists and remained in the Methodist Church. Haskell served for many years as the Men's Bible Class song leader. As were his father and grandfather before him he was a longtime member of the Masonic Lodge, being a 32nd Degree Mason and receiving a fifty-year seniority certificate in 1996. After retiring, he was active in the Golden Age Club where he was recognized as an Outstanding Older Texan (19). Audie Dodd wrote in 1984 that her biggest achievement was educating her sons. In her notes she also mentioned that, after his retirement, she and Haskell had several enjoyable trips to the Rocky Mountains and to the Smoky Mountains. She noted that they were always interested in politics and always voted (8).
Although both were long-time residents of Texas their hearts remained in the small town of Broken Bow near the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. They had planned to return there after the war but somehow the opportunity never arose (19). Audie Beda Dodd died on August 3, 1996, after a short illness (19,23). Haskell Dodd died on March 27, 1999 (19,22). Both are buried in the Southland Memorial Park on SW 3rd Street in Grand Prairie (19).
References cited:
(1) Haskell Dodd birth certificate, Oklahoma State Health Department.
(2) John H Dodd family Bible with names, birth dates, marriages, and death dates of children.
(3) 1910 Haskell Co, OK, Family 159: John H Dodd family.
(4) Recollections of Haskell Dodd.
(5) 1920 McCurtain Co, OK census, Family 146: William R Luttrell ,and Family 379: John H Dodd.
(6) Graduation Program, Broken Bow High School, Class of 1927.
(7) Audie Beda Luttrell birth certificate.
(8) Recollections and notes of Audie Luttrell Dodd.
(9) 1910 Sevier Co, AR, census, Family 179: W R Luttrell.
(10) Temporary Teacher's Certificate, McCurtain Co, OK, dated Dec 4, 1920.
(11) Oklahoma Teacher's Certificate, dated Oct 27, 1923.
(12) Southeastern State Teacher's College statement of credits: Audie Luttrell.
(13) Marriage License dated Jan 9, 1927: Audie Luttrell to Herschel Brock.
(14) William R Luttrell family Bible with birth dates of children and grandchildren.
(15) Recollections of Ollie Brock.
(16) 1920 school census: Holly Creek OK: J H Dodd family.
(17) 1920 school census: Eagletown OK: W R Luttrell family.
(18) Marriage License dated Dec 10, 1933: Haskell Dodd to Audie Luttrell Brock.
(19) Recollections of H L Dodd.
(20) 1942 Haskell Dodd job application.
(21) 1944 Audie Dodd Texas driver's license.
(22) Death certificate: Haskell Dodd.
(23) Death certificate: Audie Beda Dodd.
(24) Paul Dodd family notes, Dec 27, 1998.
(25) Personnel Information Sheet, attachment to job application, US Civil Service Comm, May 24, 1941.
(26) Letter from Haskell Dodd to Congressman Wilburn Cartwright, dated June 28, 1942.
(27) Service record, Haskell Dodd, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.
(28) Letter dated Feb 12, 1919, from 1st Sgt Howard R Wynn, 358th Machine Gun Company, regarding the death of Sampel Dodd and Jesse Hutchinson.
(29) Graves Registration Service notification regarding the burial of Sampel Dodd in France.
(30) Training Report, National Defense Industrial Training Program, Oklahoma A & M College.
(31) 1920 McCurtain Co, OK, census, ED 134, Sheet 8: William R Luttrell family.
(32) 1930 McCurtain Co, OK, census, ED 1, Sheet 5B: William R Luttrell family; ED 3, Sheet 16B: John H Dodd family.
H L Dodd
June 6, 2001
Haskell Dodd was born January 31, 1907, in Star, Haskell County, in the Choctaw Nation of the Indian Territory (now Haskell County, Oklahoma) to John Huston Dodd and Mary Ellen Buckner Dodd (1,2,3). It was not uncommon at the time for a family to name their first-born child after the locality into which they had just moved. Such was the case with John and Ellen Dodd who had recently moved from Arkansas to Haskell County. Actually, they named their son Thomas Haskell Dodd but he disliked the name Thomas and dropped it from his name as a young adult (4). He was called "Hack" by many of his friends and co-workers.
In 1913, when he was six years old, his parents moved south of the Kiamichi Mountains to McCurtain County, Oklahoma, and helped settle the Holly Creek community (4,5,16). His uncle, Tom Buckner, and his family moved at the same time. In 1922 his family moved to a farm just outside the nearby town of Broken Bow where he graduated from high school. In addition to being an avid baseball player he was the poet laureate of the class of 1927 and wrote the class poem "Awake" (4,6).
He had six brothers and three sisters. Two of the brothers and one of the sisters died while infants. His oldest brother, John Sampel Dodd, was killed in action about a mile north of Cunel, France, on the edge of the Argonne forest, on October 28, 1918 (2,28). Germany signed the armistice which ended World War One on November 11, 1918, just two weeks after John's death. John was first buried in a small cemetery near Cunel, then in the American military cemetery at Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France, and finally in the Arlington National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia (4,28,29).
Audie Luttrell was born November 9, 1903, in Gillham, Sevier County, Arkansas, to William R Luttrell and Birdie Evelyn Johnson Luttrell (7). She started school in Gillham at the age of four (8). The family was on the 1910 Gillham census where her father's occupation was stated as night watchman for an oil company (9).
In late 1910, when she was six or seven, her parents moved from Gillham to Idabel in McCurtain County, Oklahoma (8). The family moved to Broken Bow in 1915, and then to Eagletown in 1916 where she finished high school in 1920 (5,8,17). The 1920 census shows her father to be a farmer (31). In late 1920, at the age of 17, she began to teach school at nearby Willow Springs using a temporary teaching certificate, earning her permanent teacher's certificate in 1923 (8,10,11). She had attended Southeastern State Teacher's College at Durant during the summers (12).
She taught school until her marriage to Herschel Brock. They were married at Clebit in McCurtain County on January 9, 1927 (13). They had one son, Ollie Gene Brock, who was born March 27, 1929 (14). However, the couple soon separated. The 1930 McCurtain County census shows Audie to be in her father's household (32).
Audie married Haskell in Idabel on December 10, 1933 (18). They had one son, H L (Dutch) Dodd, who was born on January 2, 1935, and an unnamed daughter who was born on October 29, 1935, and who died the next day (14).
Haskell and Audie married during the deepest part of the Great Depression which had begun in 1929 and lasted until the entry of the United States into World War Two. Life was difficult, but through hard work they were able to provide for their family's necessities.
Haskell's nephew, Paul Dodd, recalled, in notes written in 1998, a visit from Haskell and Audie. He wrote "Haskell and Audie came to my house one time in a new 1934 or 1936 Ford sedan. They took us up to the mountains and parked. Haskell turned on the radio with music. To hear music from a car parked in the middle of nowhere was magic to me. It was my first time to be in a car with a radio" (24).
Haskell and Audie had lived part of their early lives on a farm where light was obtained from kerosene lamps, water from a well outside the house, there was no indoor plumbing, and transportation was by horseback or wagon. Both came from relatively large families; he from a family of ten children where three died as infants and she from a family of six children where two died as infants (2,14). They made the transition from farm life to an urban life where he was employed in a technologically advanced industry.
Haskell's employment history reflects the transition:
1. After his graduation from high school in May of 1927, he worked for Elmo Wreyford as a truck driver in Broken Bow (25)
2. From late 1928 until June 1929, he worked for the Oklahoma Pipeline Company, laying pipe and making emergency repairs for a pipeline being built from DeQueen, Arkansas, to Ardmore, Oklahoma. Later he worked near Seminole, Oklahoma, laying flow lines to oil wells. He was laid off in June 1929 due to the depression and returned to Broken Bow (25).
3. Beginning in July 1929, he worked as parts manager for Broken Bow Motor Company, the local Chevrolet dealer, and later ran a Mobil service station which the Chevrolet dealer owned. This continued until December 1932 (25,32).
4. During the early part of 1933 he began work as a firefighter for the United States Forest Service, living at Nashoba in nearby Pushmataha County. This was dangerous and arduous work which often involved a long and difficult hike into the mountains, fighting the fire, and then another long walk out. It would often take several days to complete the round trip (4).
5. In May 1934, he began work for the Forest Service as a Technical Foreman supervising Civilian Conservation Corps projects in McCurtain and Pushmataha Counties in the Ouachita Mountains. He and his family moved as his work dictated, moving back to Broken Bow by 1935 where his son was born, then again to Nashoba in 1937, to Eagletown in 1938, again to Broken Bow in 1939, to Smithville in 1940, and back to Broken Bow in 1941 (4,25). In September 1941 the CCC program came to an end. He was proud of the work which his crews did in building roads and facilities for the state park system in southeastern Oklahoma. Many remain in service.
6. He worked briefly as foreman for a company clearing right-of-way for highways (4,15).
7. He completed the National Defense School at Oklahoma A & M, attending from March 16, 1942, until May 23, 1942, preparing himself for work in the defense industry. He was trained in sheet metal assembly and jig building (30).
8. After completion of the course, he applied to Douglas Aircraft in Tulsa and to DuPont at Choteau for employment without success (26).
9. In July of 1942 the family moved to Dallas, Texas, where he began work for North American Aviation. In October of the same year the family moved to Grand Prairie where they would remain. He worked for North American until August 1945, when he was laid off due to the end of the war and the reduction in defense spending. He had worked as an assembler and later as a jig builder (4).
10. He then worked as an assembler at Globe Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth from August 1945 until November 1946 when he was again laid off due to a reduction in force (4).
11. From November 1946, until April 1949, he worked as an assembler at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth (27). As at Globe Aircraft, he commuted to work from Grand Prairie (4).
12. He returned to Grand Prairie beginning in April 1949, working again as a jig builder. He worked at Chance-Vought Corporation (which became LTV Corporation) until his retirement in 1972. Audie worked for a time in a department store in Grand Prairie (4,15,19).
On an application for work with the United States Civil Service Commission which was completed May 24, 1941, he listed his height as 5'7" and his weight as 155 pounds (25). On an application completed at the age of thirty-five 1942, he listed his height as 5'7", his weight as 148 pounds, with black hair and grey eyes (20). On her 1944 Texas driver's license, Audie Dodd listed her height as 5'3", her weight as 135 pounds, and having black hair and grey eyes (21).
Both Haskell and Audie were raised as Methodists and remained in the Methodist Church. Haskell served for many years as the Men's Bible Class song leader. As were his father and grandfather before him he was a longtime member of the Masonic Lodge, being a 32nd Degree Mason and receiving a fifty-year seniority certificate in 1996. After retiring, he was active in the Golden Age Club where he was recognized as an Outstanding Older Texan (19). Audie Dodd wrote in 1984 that her biggest achievement was educating her sons. In her notes she also mentioned that, after his retirement, she and Haskell had several enjoyable trips to the Rocky Mountains and to the Smoky Mountains. She noted that they were always interested in politics and always voted (8).
Although both were long-time residents of Texas their hearts remained in the small town of Broken Bow near the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. They had planned to return there after the war but somehow the opportunity never arose (19). Audie Beda Dodd died on August 3, 1996, after a short illness (19,23). Haskell Dodd died on March 27, 1999 (19,22). Both are buried in the Southland Memorial Park on SW 3rd Street in Grand Prairie (19).
References cited:
(1) Haskell Dodd birth certificate, Oklahoma State Health Department.
(2) John H Dodd family Bible with names, birth dates, marriages, and death dates of children.
(3) 1910 Haskell Co, OK, Family 159: John H Dodd family.
(4) Recollections of Haskell Dodd.
(5) 1920 McCurtain Co, OK census, Family 146: William R Luttrell ,and Family 379: John H Dodd.
(6) Graduation Program, Broken Bow High School, Class of 1927.
(7) Audie Beda Luttrell birth certificate.
(8) Recollections and notes of Audie Luttrell Dodd.
(9) 1910 Sevier Co, AR, census, Family 179: W R Luttrell.
(10) Temporary Teacher's Certificate, McCurtain Co, OK, dated Dec 4, 1920.
(11) Oklahoma Teacher's Certificate, dated Oct 27, 1923.
(12) Southeastern State Teacher's College statement of credits: Audie Luttrell.
(13) Marriage License dated Jan 9, 1927: Audie Luttrell to Herschel Brock.
(14) William R Luttrell family Bible with birth dates of children and grandchildren.
(15) Recollections of Ollie Brock.
(16) 1920 school census: Holly Creek OK: J H Dodd family.
(17) 1920 school census: Eagletown OK: W R Luttrell family.
(18) Marriage License dated Dec 10, 1933: Haskell Dodd to Audie Luttrell Brock.
(19) Recollections of H L Dodd.
(20) 1942 Haskell Dodd job application.
(21) 1944 Audie Dodd Texas driver's license.
(22) Death certificate: Haskell Dodd.
(23) Death certificate: Audie Beda Dodd.
(24) Paul Dodd family notes, Dec 27, 1998.
(25) Personnel Information Sheet, attachment to job application, US Civil Service Comm, May 24, 1941.
(26) Letter from Haskell Dodd to Congressman Wilburn Cartwright, dated June 28, 1942.
(27) Service record, Haskell Dodd, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.
(28) Letter dated Feb 12, 1919, from 1st Sgt Howard R Wynn, 358th Machine Gun Company, regarding the death of Sampel Dodd and Jesse Hutchinson.
(29) Graves Registration Service notification regarding the burial of Sampel Dodd in France.
(30) Training Report, National Defense Industrial Training Program, Oklahoma A & M College.
(31) 1920 McCurtain Co, OK, census, ED 134, Sheet 8: William R Luttrell family.
(32) 1930 McCurtain Co, OK, census, ED 1, Sheet 5B: William R Luttrell family; ED 3, Sheet 16B: John H Dodd family.
H L Dodd
June 6, 2001
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