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Patsy Morgan Combs

After graduation I went to work with the Department of Public Safety in the Driver's License division as a file clerk. There is where I met my husband John. The DPS had a rule prohibiting a married couple working together. Therefore, after marriage in 1960, I went to work with the Texas National Guard at Camp Mabry as a clerk typist.

With the birth of our first child Pencie in 1967 I became a stay at home mom. (While still working out of the home I influenced my husband to return to the University of Texas and earn his degree.) In 1969 our son John was born. In 1978, while a stay at home mom, my family and I moved to Lockhart, Tx where we owned a business which I ran. We sold our business in 1981 and moved back to Austin. I remained a stay at home mom until April 1982 when I went to work with the Austin Police Department. Most of my twenty years of work with the department was spent in the Forensic Division.

Upon retirement in April of 2002 and my husband's retirement in May 2002, we moved to Buchanan Dam to assist in the care of my mother and my brother who was a cancer patient (he died in December 2006). Mom passed away May 2010 at the age of 97. The summer of 2011 we moved on the back of our son's ten acres.

Professionally, my husband spent 27 years in the Austin ISD, where he served as a school principal for 20 years. After retiring from AISD John went to work as program manager with Extend-A-Care for Kids for 9 1/2 years.

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