Mr. Gary Robertson our current Administrator

Our Administrators’ name is Gary Robertson and Gary is a Persian Gulf Veteran.
Gary started working in Ardmore back in 1985 and was called to duty during the Persian Gulf war and returned to Ardmore as a Hero to our Residents and Employees. Gary would never call himself a hero but I can since I am telling the story!
Mr.Robertson left Ardmore and was Promoted Assistant Administrator at the Veterans Center in Talahina Oklahoma and a few years later became Administrator at the Veterans Center in Clinton, Oklahoma. Mr. Robertson became our Administrator on February 1, 2003. I took the picture above on 2-3-03 as soon as Gary got in his new office as our Administrator.—- Welcome back home Gary!!

Gayla Dabbs Assistant Administrator

Gayla Dabbs began working at the Oklahoma Veterans Center, Ardmore Division, November 25, 1985. Gayla was Laboratory Manager for 23 years and was promoted to Assistant Administrator, January 12, 2009. Gayla was born and raised in Stratford, Oklahoma and has lived in the Ardmore area since 1976. Gayla has a Bachelor of Science Degree from East Central University , Ada , Oklahoma and has two children and one grandchild. Gayla enjoys exercising, outdoor activities, shopping and being with her family.

Update: Donna Goode retired 12-31-2009 from the Finance Department and will be missed by everyone. I hope Donna gets to enjoy her retirement and keep ministering to the children in Africa with her church and I wish the best to her husband Jerry! Donna Goode 2009

Update: 12-01-2009

On December 1, 2009, there was a very productive meeting on our 100 year Anniversary coming up June 24, 2010. Looks like everyone is working hard to put on a great celebration and I think it is only right considering all the history behind this Veterans Center. I have met many great Veterans and some of the best Employees here in Ardmore and not to forget all the great Volunteers. Looks like this is going to be a huge event thanks to our Administrator Gary Robertson and O.D.V.A. Director Martha Spears and many more people. We will have another meeting January 21, 2010 on this event. Rick

Picture from 1920

You can click on most pictures and they get larger then you click again and make them even larger

Current Picture 2006

This is a memo that I found from John Galt of the Confederate Home Ardmore

Oklahoma Confederate Home 1911

Grandma Whittle Oklahoma Confederate Home

Monday, March 4, 1918

MRS. SUZANNE WHITTLE

MRS. SUZANNE WHITTLE, known as Grandma, and probably the oldest white woman in the state, died yesterday morning at the Oklahoma Confederate Home, age 105 years 8 months 13 days. She had been confined to bed for 11 years from a stroke of paralysis. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in the chapel of Brown and Bridgman’s undertaking establishment. Rev. E. L. AVERETT of the South Ardmore Baptist Church officiated. The body was taken to Utica, Oklahoma for burial, accompanied by her son MARION. In addition to her son, she is survived by her husband, M. C. WHITTLE, age 96, very feeble and an inmate of the home. Mrs. Whittle’s maiden name was SMITH, born in North Carolina. She was twice married, first to ALEXANDER MCLEOD. In 1852 she became the wife of Mr. WHITTLE, both marriage taking place in Macon County, Georgia. She was the mother of nine children. Mrs. Whittle was a woman of beautiful character, and through all the years she was confined to her bed, kept her sunny disposition. She had an unusually bright mind. Although she never had the advantages of education, “that,” she said, “gave her knowledge.”

I thought I would share this report with everyone from 1918 on the flu outbreak from the Oklahoma Confederate Home since the flu is in the news. I retyped this information just the way it was when I got the report and I will scan and put the full report on this sight as soon as possble: Read the rest of this entry »

Rick Wallace

November 02, 2009 – I started this web site February of 2000 and I have reached close to 30,000 views. I never dreamed that this would catch on like it did and then I got the news that geocities was closing down so I had a choice of dropping this web site or invest money and save all the hard work involved to get this information. My son (CORNDOG) and my mother helped a lot by creating and scanning and I did a lot of driving and talking to a lot of people, I went to many libraries and to the state capital digging for information. I would take vacations looking for this information and spent many hours on the computer. I have a lot of information that I have not finished scanning and newspaper articles from the days that the Oklahoma Confederate Home was going to be built. I will put all of this on this web sight as soon as I am finished scanning. Thanks, Rick Wallace Retired

October 26, 2009 – I have upgraded this web site as of 10-24-2009 through yahoo.com and there will be some changes over the next few weeks to change the looks and make it more modern.  Justin Wallace is doing most of the changes since he is the Web Master of this site. We are trying to get everything ready for the Veterans Centers 100th birthday in 2010. When I first started this web site, I was wanting a personal web site just for me and friends to check out and see what they thought of all the information that I had found but this site has become a lot larger than I ever dreamed and important to people all over the country from all the e-mails that I get. Like I stated up above, we will be upgrading!If any of the other Veterans centers in Oklahoma have a web sight or any information that they would like to share, I am willing to post that information or share a link through this web site since I am retired and have some time to help!

Alma Powers R.N.  picture from Early 1980s

Our House Supervisor Alma Powers R.N. has retired after 35 years of service to our Veterans and to the state of Oklahoma and Mrs. Powers is my favorite R.N. ever!! I wish Alma the best and I know the Lord will bless her has she (Alma) has been a true blessing for everyone that has ever came in contact with her!!

I took this picture at Toni and Margies’ retirement party 2002

L.P.N. Toni Hunt passed away on October 09, 2009 and Toni will be missed by all. Toni had retired in 2002 and I sure enjoyed working with her. Toni was a tough lost for everyone!!